J.W. Lord Quotes
The manner of your speaking is full as important as the matter, as more people have ears to be tickled than understandings to judge.
A liberal is only a bundle of prejudices until he has mastered, has understood, experienced the philosophy of Conservatism.
Ah, nut-brown partridges! Ah, brilliant pheasants! And ah, ye poachers!--'Tis no sport for peasants.
Yet truth will sometimes lend her noblest fires, And decorate the verse herself inspires: This fact, in virtue's name, let Crabbe attest,- Though Nature's sternest painter, yet the best.
The finest opportunity ever given to the world was thrown away because the passion of equality made vain the hope for freedom.
Your thief looks Exactly like the rest, or rather better; 'Tis only at the bar, and in the dungeon, That wise men know your felon by his features.
I believe firmly that it was the Almighty's goodness, to check my consummate vanity.
Logic is the art of thinking well: the mind, like the body, requires to be trained before it can use its powers in the most advantageous way.
Luxury possibly may contribute to give bread to the poor; but if there were no luxury, there would be no poor.
Were wisdom to be sold, she would give no price; every man is satisfied with the share he has from nature.
A generous spirit prefers that his country should be poor, and weak, and of no account, but free, rather than powerful, prosperous, and enslaved.
Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.
I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me: and to me High mountains are a feeling, but the hum of human cities torture.
Many a night I saw the Pleiads, Rising thro' the mellow shade, Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies, Tangled in a silver braid.
Quaternions came from Hamilton after his really good work had been done, and though beautifully ingenious, have been an unmixed evil to those who have touched them in any way.
Parsimony is enough to make the master of the golden mines as poor as he that has nothing; for a man may be brought to a morsel of bread by parsimony as well as profusion.
No man tastes pleasures truly, who does not earn them by previous business; and few people do business well, who do nothing else.
To me He is all fault who hath no fault at all: For who loves me must have a touch of earth.
Pocket all your knowledge with your watch, and never pull it out in company unless desired.
Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime.
Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.
Common sense (which, in truth, is very uncommon) is the best sense I know of: abide by it; it will counsel you best.
People will no more advance their civility to a bear, than their money to a bankrupt.
In business be as able as you can, but do not be cunning; cunning is the dark sanctuary of incapacity.
Physical ills are the taxes laid upon this wretched life; some are taxed higher, and some lower, but all pay something.
What deep wounds ever closed without a scar? The hearts bleed longest, and heals but to wear That which disfigures it.
Her court was pure, her life serene; God gave her peace; her land reposed; A thousand claims to reverence closed.
I love the language, it sounds as if it should be writ on satin with syllables which breathe of the sweet South
