Quotes
Quotes about Wit
A man in this world without learning is as a beast of the field.
He not only overflowed with learning, but stood in the slop.
He who has imagination without learning has wings and no feet.
If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.
Learn the fundamentals of the game at your leisure and stick with them. Band-aid remedies never last.
The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.
The most desirable thing in life after health and modest means is leisure with dignity.
Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company.
Letters are useful as a means of expressing the ideal self. . . . In letters we can reform without practice, beg without humiliation, snip and shape embarrassing experiences to the measure of our own desires. . . .
When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded, and then throw both letters in the wastebasket.
I can remember way back when a liberal was one who was generous with his own money.
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind! Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art, For there thy habitation is the heart-- The heart which love of thee alone can bind; And when thy sons to fetters are consign'd-- To fetters and damp vault's dayless gloom, Their country conquers with their martyrdom. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron),
When Liberty from Greece withdrew, And o'er the Adriatic flew, To where the Tiber pours his urn, She struck the rude Tarpeian rock; Sparks were kindled by the shock-- Again thy fires began to burn.
Yes, while I stood and gazed, my temples bare, And shot my being through earth, sea, and air, Possessing all things with intensest love, O liberty! my spirit felt thee there.
'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
Then liberty, like day, Breaks on the soul, and by a flash from Heaven Fires all the faculties with glorious joy.
To brand man with infamy, and let him free, is an absurdity that peoples our forests with assassins. [Fr., Rendre l'homme infame, et le laisser libre, est une absurdite qui peuple nos forets d'assassins.]
The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zealâwell-meaning but without understanding.
By physical liberty I mean the right to do anything which does not interfere with the happiness of another. By intellectual liberty I mean the right to think wrong.
I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it's natural manure.
Liberty can not be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.
