J.W. Lord Quotes

Wearing all that weight Of learning lightly like a flower.

In business be as able as you can, but do not be cunning; cunning is the dark sanctuary of incapacity.

Common sense (which, in truth, is very uncommon) is the best sense I know of: abide by it; it will counsel you best.

A louse in the locks of literature.

Physical ills are the taxes laid upon this wretched life; some are taxed higher, and some lower, but all pay something.

Love will conquer at the last.

I love the language, it sounds as if it should be writ on satin with syllables which breathe of the sweet South

Ah, nut-brown partridges! Ah, brilliant pheasants! And ah, ye poachers!--'Tis no sport for peasants.

The manner of your speaking is full as important as the matter, as more people have ears to be tickled than understandings to judge.

Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.

'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.

Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.

What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.

Solomon's Laws 1. When the law doesn't work...work the law.

The demons were scary, but girls - Well, girls are really terrifying

Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way through the world.

It is the duty of a doctor to prolong life and it is not his duty to prolong the act of dying.

Do not choose to be wrong for the sake of being different.

There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.

A timid question will always receive a confident answer.

Churchill was the canny political animal, very devious, bursting with energy and determination, learning as hard as he could.

The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduction of politics into religion is the prostitution of true religion.

Happy he With such a mother! faith in womankind Beats with his blood, and trust in all things high Comes easy to him; and tho' he trip and fall, He shall not blind his soul with clay.

Bible reading is an education in itself.

So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice.

Mastering the lawless science of our law,- that codeless myriad of precedent, that wilderness of single instances.

Live both in the future and the past. Who does not live in the past does not live in the future.

Cast all your cares on God; that anchor holds.

The smell of violets, hidden in the green, Pour'd back into my empty soul and frame The times when I remembered to have been Joyful and free from blame.

At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities.

Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.

The greater person is one of courtesy.

Choose the company of your superiors whenever you can have it.

Seek always for the best words and the happiest expression you can find.

And out of darkness came the hands that reach through nature, moulding men.

Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.

Twilight and evening bell, and after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell when I embark.

Manners are not idle, but the fruit of loyal and of noble mind.

What men call gallantry, and gods adultery, is much more common where the climate's sultry.

In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.

Men may come and men may go but I go on forever.

Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime.

The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority.

Absolute power demoralizes.

History is but a confused heap of facts.

The British electors will not vote for a man who does not wear a hat.

Three outstanding qualities make for success: judgment, industry, health. And the greatest of these is judgment.

On the rock bound coast of New Brunswick the waves break incessantly. Every now and then comes a particularly dangerous wave that breaks viciously into the rock. It is called 'The Rage.' That's me.

If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.