To me it seems that youth is like spring, an over-praised season delightful if it happens to be a favored one, but in practice very rarely favored and more remarkable, as a general rule, for biting east winds than genial…

Quote by Samuel Butler

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Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything...

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything...

Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of...

Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of...

Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; true as a...

Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; true as a...

Cleanliness is almost as bad as godliness

Cleanliness is almost as bad as godliness

We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make...

We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make...

The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing should be taken...

The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing should be taken...

If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good...

If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good...

The history of art is the history of revivals

The history of art is the history of revivals

I am; therefore, I think.

I am; therefore, I think.

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.

Friendship is like money, more easily made than kept.

Friendship is like money, more easily made than kept.

Christ: I dislike him very much. Still, I can stand him. What I cannot stand...

Christ: I dislike him very much. Still, I can stand him. What I cannot stand...

A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.

A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.

A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep...

A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep...

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as...

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as...

No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which...

No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which...

An open mind is all very well in its way, but it ought not to...

An open mind is all very well in its way, but it ought not to...

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!

A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably

A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably