J. L. B. Smith Quotes
Nature never quite goes along with us. She is somber at weddings, sunny at funerals, and she frowns on ninety-nine out of a hundred picnics.
Fine writers should split hairs together, and sit side by side, like friendly apes, to pick the fleas from each others fur.
Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.
I might give my life for my friend, but he had better not ask me to do up a parcel.
Our political and constitutional rights, so called, are but the natural and inherent rights of man, asserted, carried out, and secured by modes of human contrivance.
It's an odd thing about this universe that, though we all disagree with each other, we are all of us always in the right.
It is manifestly vital to the success of the anti-slavery cause, that the authority and influence of proslavery, especially of slaveholding, ministers should be destroyed.
There is one class of men, whom it especially behoves to be tenacious of the right of free discussion. I mean the poor.
We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stutter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.
Are there other people who, when watching a documentary set in a prison, secretly think, as I have, 'Wish I had all that time to read'?
If they lost the incredible conviction that they can change their wives or husbands, marriage would collapse at once.
People are bursting out of the closet, rejecting their parents' wishes to keep the faith. Atheism is becoming mainstream.
We'd never expect to understand a piece of music on one listen, but we tend to believe we've read a book after reading it just once.
We say, that the Constitution of the United States is a glorious standard; it is founded in the wisdom of God.
By nature a philosopher is not in genius and disposition half so different from a street porter, as a mastiff is from a greyhound
For me, there is nothing more valuable than how people feel in a movie theater about a movie.
Mobs may assemble, calumny may defame, but the work of God will go forth boldly, nobly, and independent.
The pleased sea on a white-breasted shore-- A shore that wears on her alluring brows Rare shells, far brought, the love-gifts of the sea, That blushed a tell-tale.
The hardest thing is remembering that you have some complicity in the things that happen to you in your life.
A lot of things people see as innovative are faddish and fleeting, and I'm simply telling you, staying power like broadcasting has is more important in the end than the latest app you can download.
The purposes of our God are great, His love unfathomable, His wisdom infinite, and His power unlimited; therefore, the Saints have cause to rejoice and be glad.
The Roman legions were formed in the first instance of citizen soldiers, who yet had been made to submit to a rigid discipline, and to feel that in that submission lay their strength.
What is the damnation of hell? To go with that society who have not obeyed His commands.
Choose your allies carefully: it's highly unlikely that you'll ever be held morally, legally, or historically accountable for the actions of your enemies.
It is hard for me to believe that any husband and wife are really happy together. And to have thee say you are is an unspeakable comfort.
When I say I am going to run three miles, I run five. With that mentality, it is actually difficult to lose.
One of the most destructive things that's happening in modern society is that we are losing our sense of the bonds that bind people together - which can lead to nightmares of social collapse.
