Quotes
No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.
It is the sincere desire of the writer that our citizens should early understand that the genuine source of correct republican principles is the bible, particularly the New Testament or the Christian religion.
In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed.
All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.
What love is to man, music is to the arts and to mankind.
An artist's sphere of influence is the world.
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon.
Nothing has been purchased more dearly.
If you can not master your language you must be it's slave.
If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the disenchantment of the world.
Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say In spite of all! has the calling for politics.
Only by strict specialization can the scientific worker become fully conscious, for once and perhaps never again in his lifetime, that he has achieved something that will endure. A really definitive and good accomplishment is today always a specialized act.
One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.
No sociologist should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quite trivial computations in his head and perhaps for months at a time.
There is nothing better than playing a bad girl for two months, then turning around and playing someone sweet. Films give you this opportunity.
If it is too good to be true... it is probably a fraud.
Mine is a straight, nothing-fancy, down-and-in delivery with a small hook at the end.
If we had every dollar back that we spent on parties, we would be in the same situation.
Christmas is for children. But it is for grownups too. Even if it is a headache, a chore, and nightmare, it is a period of necessary defrosting of chill and hide-bound hearts.