J.W. Lord Quotes
A proper secrecy is the only mystery of able men; mystery is the only secrecy of weak and cunning ones.
The premises are so delightfully extensive, that two people might live together without ever seeing, hearing or meeting.
I recommend to you to take care of the minutes; for hours will take care of themselves. I am very sure, that many people lose two or three hours every day, by not taking care of the minutes.
Hypocrisy is folly. It is much easier, safer, and pleasanter to be the thing which a man aims to appear, than to keep up the appearance of being what he is not.
That loss is common would not make My own less bitter, rather more: Too common! Never morning wore To evening, but some heart did break.
The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.
For every worm beneath the moon Draws different threads, and late and soon Spins, toiling out his own cocoon.
See, you're out your mind tryin' to face tha God. Your rhyme is like an empty prison...a waste of bars.
And blessings on the falling out That all the more endears, When we fall out with those we love And kiss again with tears!
The lapse of ages changes all things - time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing about, around, and underneath man, except man himself.
Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.
By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes to be his duty against the influences of authority and majorities, custom and opinion.
Truth is a gem that is found at a great depth; whilst on the surface of the world all things are weighed by the false scale of custom.
My purpose holds to sail beyond the sunset and the baths of all the Western stars until I die.
To take a wife merely as an agreeable and rational companion, will commonly be found to be a grand mistake.
What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire - in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?
And what delights can equal those That stir the spirit's inner deeps, When one that loves but knows not, reaps A truth from one that loves and knows?
Good work and joyous play go hand in hand. When play stops, old age begins. Play keeps you from taking life too seriously.
Stay because you want to be here. Stay because we would miss you. And stay because you can belong in more than one place, and one of your places is with us.
Guard against the prestige of great names; see that your judgments are your own; and do not shrink from disagreement; no trusting without testing
Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.
Who loves not Knowledge? Who shall rail Against her beauty? May she mix With men and prosper! Who shall fix Her pillars? Let her work prevail.
Evolution ever climbing after some ideal good, And Reversion ever dragging Evolution in the mud.
Little vicious minds abound with anger and revenge and are incapable of feeling te pleasure of forgiving their enemies.
Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence.
Life is not as idle ore, But iron dug from central gloom, And heated hot with burning fears, And dipt in baths of hissing tears, And batter'd with the shocks of doom, To shape and use.
The Lord let the house of a brute to the soul of a man, And the man said, "Am I your debtor?" And the Lord--"Not yet: but make it as clean as you can, And then I will let you a better.
