Hugh Blair Quotes

Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.

Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our manner.

The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible.

It is pride which fills the world with so much harshness and severity. We are rigorous to offenses as if we had never offended.

What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Human ability is an unequal match for the violent and unforeseen vicissitudes of the world.

Fretfulness of temper will generally characterize those who are negligent of order.

Nothing leads more directly to the breach of charity, and to the injury and molestation of our fellow-creatures, than the indulgence of an ill temper.

Those who are learning to compose and arrange their sentences with accuracy and order are learning, at the same time, to think with accuracy and order.

To exult over the miseries of an unhappy creature is inhuman.

Taste consists in the power of judging; genius in the power of executing.

Nothing, except what flows from the heart, can render even external manners truly pleasing.

In the eye of that Supreme Being to whom our whole internal frame is uncovered, dispositions hold the place of actions.

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

We ought never to sport with pain and distress in any of our amusements, or treat even the meanest insect with wanton cruelty.

As the primary end of History is to record truth, impartiality, fidelity and accuracy are the fundamental qualities of an Historian.