John Quotes

You see only the productions of second-rate folk who are in a hurry to get wealth and fame. The true knowledge, the deadly knowledge, is still kept secret. But, believe me, my friend, it is there.

"What would you call the highest happiness, Lewie?" he asked. "The sense of competence," was the answer, given without hesitation.

The vows we take in the holy place bind us till we are purged of them at Inanda's Kraal. Till then no blood must be shed and no flesh eaten. It was the fashion of our forefathers.

Any large-scale organization must lose some of the merits of its rudimentary beginnings. Quantity will have a coarsening effect on quality.

But some love not the method of your first; Romance they count it, throw't away as dust; If I should meet with such, what should I say; Must I slight them as they slight me, or nay

There is no other who experiences your thoughts or your feelings.

Large sums were paid for the use of money, because the available amount of gold and silver was far less than was needed to carry on the commercial transactions of the times.

Accordingly, when the supply of gold runs short, the security behind the notes is diminished, the loaning of notes is restricted or suspended, and the panic follows.

At present, financial crises occur, chiefly because the paper currency is redeemable in gold only.

The Massachusetts Land Bank, during Colonial times, prospered, and brought prosperity to the community, until it was forcibly suppressed by special act of Parliament.

For each one of us stands alone in the midst of a universe.

I come from the Town of Stupidity; it lieth about four degrees beyond the City of Destruction.

It is easier going out of the way when we are in, than going in when we are out.

To pray rightly, you must make God your hope, stay, and all. Right prayer sees nothing substantial or worth being concerned about except God.

Who would true valour see, Let him come hither; One here will constant be, Come wind, come weather There’s no discouragement Shall make him once relent His first avowed intent To be a pilgrim.

I was never out of my Bible.

I saw a man clothed with rags . . . a book in his hand, and a great burden upon his back.

I am now a man of despair, rejected, abandoned, shut up in this iron cage from which there is no escape.

Care, mad to see a man sae happy, E'en drouned himsel amang the nappy.

Now may this little Book a blessing be To those that love this little Book, and me: And may its Buyer have no cause to say, His money is but lost, or thrown away.

Farewell, I wish our souls may meet with comfort at the journey's end.- The Heavenly Footman: A Puritan's View of How to Get to Heaven.

Yet my great-grandfather was but a water-man, looking one way and rowing another: and I got most of my estate by the same occupation.

Hanging is too good for him said Mr. Cruelty.

The life blood streaming thro' my heart, Or my more dear immortal part, Is not more fondly dear.

Fullness to such a burden is That go on pilgrimage; Here little, and hereafter bliss, Is best from age to age.

Breathes there a man, whose judgment clear Can others teach their course to steer, Yet run himself life's mad career Wild as the wave?

Every fat (vat) must stand upon its bottom.

Some said, "John, print it"; others said "Not so." Some said, "It might do good"; others said, "No."

Las Vegas is the expression, in glitter and concrete, of Americas brittle and mutating id.

I recognise that Socialism has ended its purely theoretical course, and that the hour to construct has come.

Books are a real solace, friendships are good but action is better than all.

Why four great powers should fight over Serbia no fellow can understand.

I am depressed rather at the wave of brutality sweeping over the country.

Time does not become sacred to us until we have lived it.

It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.

One can only learn his powers of action by action, and his powers of thought by thinking

To see Earth fully we already need to love it

I am in love with this world. It has been my home. It has been my point of outlook into the universe. I have never bruised myself against it nor tried to use it ignobly.

The fuel in the earth will be exhausted in a thousand or more years, and its mineral wealth, but man will find substitutes for these in the winds, the waves, the sun's heat, and so forth.

The art of nature is all in the direction of concealment.

Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.

That which distinguishes this day from all others is that then both orators and artillerymen shoot blank cartridges.

One is tempted to say that the most human plants, after all, are the weeds.

[Invading Iraq] is not the best way to make a safer world in which the United States would be a responsible partner, but it also goes against the role of law in the United States.

Culture means the perfect and equal development of man on all sides.

There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.

One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.

If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.

Inch by inch, life's a cinch. Yard by yard, life's hard.

Adversity is simply part of earth life. From it we can grow and progress if we choose to. Yes, some trials come because of our own disobedience, but many trials are simply part of life.