Quotes by Henry Ellis

A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray.

#Henry Ellis

A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.

#Beliefs

What we call morals is simply blind obedience to words of command.

#Henry Ellis

To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.

#Henry Ellis

Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms...

#Henry Ellis

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without...

#Henry Ellis

There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that...

#Henry Ellis

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened...

#Henry Ellis

The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.

#Henry Ellis

The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.

#Henry Ellis

The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means...

#Henry Ellis

The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.

#Henry Ellis