K. Webster Quotes

Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered.

Gold that buys health can never be ill spent, Nor hours laid out in harmless merriment.

The soul was never put in the body to stand still.

Is not old wine wholesomest, old pippins toothsomest, old wood burn brightest, old linen wash whitest? Old soldiers, sweethearts, are surest, and old lovers are soundest.

See, the curse of children! In life they keep us frequently in tears, And in the cold grave leave us in pale fears.

Heaven fashioned us of nothing; and we strive to bring ourselves to nothing.

In all our quest of greatness, like wanton boys, whose pastime is their care, we follow after bubbles, blown in the air.

The Bible is the chief moral cause of all that is good and the best corrector of all that is evil in human society; the best book for regulating the temporal [secular] concerns of men.

Power is always right, weakness always wrong. Power is always insolent and despotic.

The laws are the sole guardians of right, and when the magistrate dares not act, every person is insecure.

Good content is the stuff of love affairs.

Nothing is easier than saying words. Nothing is harder than living them, day after day. What you promise today must be renewed and redecided tomorrow and each day that stretches out before you.

I don't want to play out of another man's bag.

It is so much better to make a big thing out of a little subject than to make a little thing out of a big one.

Get into the habit of doing what you see, not what you know. Human reason cannot foresee the accidents of out-of-doors.

Converse, converse, CONVERSE, with living men, face to face, mind to mind-that is one of the best sources of knowledge.

Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable.

The bible fits man for life and prepares him for death

Labor in this country is independent and proud. It has not to ask the patronage of capital, but capital solicits the aid of labor.

Those things that are precious are saved only by sacrifice.

Ambition, madam, is a great man's madness.

Though lust do masque in ne'er so strange disguise she's oft found witty, but is never wise.

When a man's mind rides faster than his horse can gallop they quickly both tire.

The Moral Law is summarily contained in the Decalogue or Ten Commandments; written by the finger of God on two tablets of stone, and delivered to Moses on Mount Sinai.

Unaffected modesty is the sweetest charm of female excellence, the richest gem in the diadem of her honor.

We may be tossed upon an ocean where we can see no land - nor, perhaps, the sun or stars. But there is a chart and a compass for us to study, to consult, and to obey. That chart is the Constitution.

There is something about men more capable of shaking despotic power than lightening, whirlwind, or earthquake, that is, the threatened indignation of the whole civilized world.

Nothing of character is really permanent but virtue and personal worth.

Marriage is the tomb of friendship.

This is your heart.Keep it locked until the chap turns up who has the key.

She was by nature a sunny soul

I have a terrible wanderthirst; the very sight of a map makes me want to put on my hat and take an umbrella and start. I shall see before I die the palms and temples of the South.

it's dreadful when two people's senses of humor are antagonistic. I don't believe there's any bridging that gulf!

Dear Daddy-Long-Legs, You never answered my question and it was very important. ARE YOU BALD?

Half of the time I don't know what they're talking about; their jokes seem to relate to a past that everyone but me has shared. I'm a foreigner in the world and I don't understand the language.

I account this world a tedious theater, For I do play a part in 't 'gainst my will.

How tedious is a guilty conscience!

Oh, yes, thy sins Do run before thee to fetch fire from hell, To light thee thither.

Man may his fate foresee, but not prevent. 'Tis better to be fortunate than wise.

Poor maids have more lovers than husbands.

Let guilty men remember, their black deeds Do lean on crutches made of slender reeds.

I have long served virtue, And never ta'en wages of her.

Compassion is a mixed passion, composed of love and sorrow.

The ecclesiastical establishments of Europe which serve to support tyrannical governments are not the Christian religion but abuses and corruptions of it.

Language, as well as the faculty of speech, was the immediate gift of God.

Relief of distress or compassion shown to victims of misfortune. A blessing that is an act of Divine compassion.

Getting an education is an awfully wearing process!

It's much more entertaining to live books than to write them.

In our lifetimes, we can only know a small portion of what exists. The world is endless and its treasures are inexhaustible.

I surrender to the Monster. What pleasure at last to give way to the strongest force in oneself.