Joseph Cook Quotes

There is a certain physiognomy in manners.

Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.

Our secret thoughts are rarely heard except in secret. No man knows what conscience is until he understands what solitude can teach him concerning it.

The Unknown is an ocean. What is conscience? The compass of the Unknown.

We must judge religious movements, not by the men who make them, but by the men they make.

It is not always the highest talent that thrives best. Mediocrity, with tact, will outweigh talent oftentimes.

Only the home can found a state.

Sin is free, or you cannot make sin out of it.

The sense of duty pursues us ever.

It is the will to be grateful which constitutes gratitude.

We shall never be at peace with ourselves until we yield with glad supremacy to our higher faculties.

The secret of solitude is that there is no solitude.

Narrowness is the mother of unbelief. Obtain a broad outlook if you would agree with God in your philosophy and be able to transmit God's own thought into your life.

We only begin to realize the value of our possessions when we commence to do good to others with them. No earthly investment pays so large an interest as charity.

God is making commerce His missionary.

Woman's rights should come by evolution, and not by revolution. I want a little woman's right tried first, and then, if the experience is bad, we can go back on our track; if good, forward.

A single profane expression betrays a man's low breeding.

Safe popular freedom consists of four things, the diffusion of liberty, of intelligence, of property, and of conscientiousness, and cannot be compounded of any three out of the four.

A thinker is a person.

Pillow my head on no guesses when I die.