Literature Quotations | Page 11

Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.

The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end.

The Grecian’s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a speech to a sentence; and many a folio to a primer.

Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.

The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.

Believing in evolution is believing in the unproved, while believing in Christ is believing in the proven.

Crying over what's gone won't find the present.

You don't reward reaction; you reward results.

The yoke you wear determines the burden you bear.

The Ten Commandments have never been replaced as the moral basis upon which society rests.