Authors From England

"The Pope is barely Catholic enough for some converts."

"The White Disguise God wears among us, littling Himself to us, that the soul may not lack that which the body needs — food: that no one may be alone, in life, or in the narrow pass between life-partial and life-complete."

"If men will shun swolne Fortunes ruinous blastes, Let them use Temperance. Nothing violent lastes."

"When the men of Israel bowed in helplessness before Pharaoh, two women spurned his edicts and refused his behests. A father made no effort to save the infant Moses, but a mother's care hid him while concealment was possible, and a sister watched over his preservation when exposed on the river's brink. To woman was intrusted the charge of providing for the perils and the wants of the wilderness; and in the hour of triumph, woman's voice was loudest in the acclaim of joy that ascended to Heaven from an emancipated nation."

"The spirit of the work of Hippocrates and his disciples, perhaps the noblest manifestation of the Greek concept of man's duty to man, is expressed in the "" ... If Hippocrates had done nothing more in his laborious life-time than formulate this ideal of the good physician's duty to suffering humanity, he would yet be among our greatest benefactors."

"... the discoveries, rich and romantic and utterly unexpected as they were, have given the North-West a world-wide advertisement of inestimable value. And this is an age of advertisement. Public opinion about such discoveries always passes through two stages—a period of universal credulity, followed by a period of universal incredulity."

"... On several occasions I have seen a cuckoo mobbed by small birds, and it would be pleasant to think it was done as a protest on the part of decent bird-society against a disgusting anti-social parasite. But the probability is that they mistake the cuckoo for a hawk."

"... Where fresh water and salt water mingle, two s are busy feeding. They run to and fro, taking little steps with their wings ups, bobbing quaintly and ing low. If , who's bright and innocent beauty has something bird-like in it, wants a Gull's Dance, she should come to these shining sands to learn it. There goes a on the point all the way, light and elusive—what a mistress of technique! The choregraphy of sea-beaches is as yet unexplored; it is quite beyond the sultry, land-locked imagination of ."

"There is no greater literary sin than the omission of an Index, and, if I had my way, even novels would be provided with charts of this kind to their multifarious contents—how convenient it wold be for readers, as well as reviewers, to have such a handy means of checking the emotions of 's quick-change heroines and the involved relationships, business and otherwise, or Mr. Galsworthy's , who increase in number and variety with each successive installment of his epic of property!"

"Whenever a , or, for that matter, any indoor diversion, becomes too serious and scientific for the average mind it soon ceases to be fashionable. Whenever the professional cuts in, the man-of-the-word cuts off—to seek some new diversion which does not require its votaries to study a shelf-full of text-books."

"In an age when the worst of sinners implicitly accepted the teaching of the , what we now regard as "honest doubt" was universally looked on as a sort of leprosy of the soul, a monstrous and highly infectious plague. The heretic was a germ-carrier to be ruthlessly routed out; the more virtuous his life, the more conspicuous his zeal for truth-seeking, the greater the danger of his example to the community. So the philosopher, who was not a theological first and last was apt to fall into bad odor with the conservative churchmen such as , who distrusted the study of logic and protested against any attempt to understand the mysteries of the Faith. , however, who was afterwards , thought that heresy must be fought by its own weapons, and he sought with much success the "necessary reasons" underlying the tenets of the Church concerning the nature of and His relations with his creatures."

"... Married people are in a position to make the closest study of one another's predilections, yet it is well known that many a marriage has been marred, or even unmade, by incompatibility of s."

"Athens became the capital of , the clearing-house of religions and moral ideas, whatever their source."

"Busy, curious, thirsty Fly, Gently drink, and drink as I; Freely welcome to my Cup, Could’st thou sip, and sip it up; Make the most of Life you may, Life is short and wears away. Just alike, both mine and thine, Hasten quick to their Decline; Thine’s a Summer, mine’s no more, Though repeated to threescore; Threescore Summers when they’re gone, Will appear as short as one."

"Being at Leeds in Yorkshire, soon after Mr. Ralph Thoresby the antiquary died, anno 1725, I saw his museum; and in it, among his other rarities, what himself has publicly called (in the catalogue thereof, annexed to his Antiquities of that town) sir Walter Ralegh's tobacco box. From the best of my memory, I can resemble its outward appearance to nothing more nearly than one of our modern muff-cases; about the same height and width, covered with red leather, and opened at top (but with a hinge, I think) like one of those. In the inside there was a cavity for a receiver of glass or metal, which might hold half a pound or a pound of tobacco; and from the edge of the receiver at top, to the edge of the box, a circular stay or collar, with holes in it, to plant the tobacco about, with six or eight pipes to smoke it in. This travelling box, with the MSS. medals, and other rarities in its company, descending to a young clergyman, the son of the deceased, was soon after reported to have been translated to London."

"The highest moral character can procure one no preference among the shades."

"He replaced his glasses, which were now smeared with mucus, and manfully assumed what he liked to think was the cautious but enlightened manner of one born to high responsibility which only conscience forbade him abrogate as modesty suggested."

"Christ asked for everything he got."

"And so, at the age of thirty, I had successively disgraced myself with three fine institutions, each of which had made me free of its full and rich resources, had trained me with skill and patience, and had shown me nothing but forbearance and charity when I failed in trust."

"Gentlemen can now only behave as such, or be tolerated as such, in circumstances that are manifestly contrived or unreal."

"In becoming the universe God abdicated. He destroyed himself as God. He turned what he had been, his true self, into nullity and thereby forfeited the Godlike qualities which pertained to him. The universe which he has become is also his grave. He has no control in it or over it. God, as God, is dead."

"Dusk is the time when men whisper of matters about which they remain silent in the full light of the sun."

"I loved the Army as an institution and loathed every single thing it required me to do."

"Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another."

"Rose girl, bearing your posies, What are you coming to sell? Is it yourself or your roses, Or yourself and your roses as well?"

"Nobody minded what you did in bed or what you said about God, a very civilized attitude in 1948."

"Alas, for our towns and cities. Monstrous carbuncles of concrete have erupted in gentle Georgian Squares."

"And as we talked, there gathered at the gate People, as me thought, of very poor estate, With bag and staff, both crooked, lame and blind, Scabby and scurvy, pock-eaten flesh and rind, Lousy and scald, and pillèd like as apes, With scantly a rag for to cover their shapes, Breechless, bare-footed, all stinking with dirt, With a thousand of tatters drabbling to the skirt, Boyes, girles, and luskish strong knaves, Diddering and daddering, leaning on their staves."

"I was born in 1896 and my parents were married in 1919."

"Old friends are the best advisers, but seldom the most agreeable, because they are generally regardless of pleasing at the expense of truth."

"To oppose a favourite prejudice is to risk odium, if you succeed, and contempt, if you fail."

"In language, the ignorant have prescribed laws to the learned."

"Men are deceived by unreasonable hopes."

"Who talks from thought and reflection is rarely eloquent; Madame de Staël was the only exception I ever knew to that rule."

"By studying trifles two of the best things in the world are neglected, knowledge, and your own understanding."

"Men are more prone to revenge an injury than to repay a benefit; because obligations are burdensome and painful; but taking vengeance seems to be something gained."

"He who praises another, and falls short of what is expected, had better have said nothing."

"A Lacedæmonian, being asked why Sparta was unfortified, said, Do not deceive yourself; it is fortified by the virtues of the inhabitants."

"All like to be pleased, few to be instructed; hence a severe moralist is rarely agreeable, while a man of detestable qualities may be well received."

"We are most pleased with the happiness of others when it arises out of habits similar to our own."

"It is a fact that a few really dedicated humanitarians, working alone, can do much good for humanity. But bring these together in a common spiritual purpose and they can save the world."

"Complete and absolute Truth is essential in all your thought throughout your daily lives, in all your meetings and business with others. Untruth has never, neither will it ever, bring to the seeker – Truth."

"How subtle is egotism. It builds the dictators. It makes the materialist say that we are alone in the system and the highest form of life in the universe. Where does it spring from? Where else but from a hidden inferiority complex inherent within those who are incapable of lasting accomplishment."

"If one lies deliberately, one will never gain wisdom. This is law."

"With the Eastern rising Sun has come all the wisdom – with the Western setting Sun must come the practical application of that wisdom."

"The only true democracy is wisdom, for wisdom is knowledge activated by power through love. The result is freedom."

"Great things we can do if we believe in the power within ourselves at this moment."

"There is no science without religion, and there is no religion without science."

"One can love the world without liking it."

"Miracles are not performed by God for man, but by man for God."