Quotes
Quotes about Sin
Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost as a remembrance.
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
Every saint has a past and every sinner a future.
A bird in the hand is a certainty, but a bird in the bush may sing.
Oftentimes excusing of a fault
When the master has come to do everything through the slave, the slave becomes his master, since he cannot live without him.
If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much.
Sin is geographical.
It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than "try to be a little kinder." -Aldous Huxley, novelist (1894-1963)
Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
Money, n. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it. An evidence of culture and a passport to polite society.
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight.
We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.
Assassination: The extreme form of censorship.
If the gods listened to the prayers of men, all humankind would quickly perish since they constantly pray for many evils to befall one another.
It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
You can sometimes count every orange on a tree but never all the trees in a single orange.
The only difference between saints and sinners is that every saint has a past while every sinner has a future.
Ships that pass in the night and speak each other in passing;
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.
