John Quotes
Canada could have enjoyed: English government, French culture, and American know-how. Instead it ended up with: English know-how, French government, and American culture.
I'm creating the kind of games that I like right now. I'm not being held back by technology.
The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.
What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant well-being, and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts of material objects measured by money.
No one can ask honestly or hopefully to be delivered from temptation unless he has himself honestly and firmly determined to do the best he can to keep out of it.
The great cry that rises from all our manufacturing cities, louder than the furnace blast, is all in very deed for this -- that we manufacture everything there except men.
The only way to understand these difficult parts of the Bible, or even to approach them with safety, is first to read and obey the easy ones.
Everything that you can see in the world around you presents itself to your eyes only as an arrangement of patches of different colors.
He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.
It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.
Bread of flour is good; but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book.
I am almost sick and giddy with the quantity of things in my head, all tempting and wanting to be worked out.
The constant duty of every man to his fellows is to ascertain his own powers and special gifts, and to strengthen them for the help of others.
Our purity of taste is best tested by its universality, for if we can only admire this thing or that, we maybe use that our cause for liking is of a finite and false nature.
The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.
The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.
There is no action so slight or so mean but it may be done to a great purpose, and ennobled thereby.
Greatness is the aggregation of minuteness; nor can its sublimity be felt truthfully by any mind unaccustomed to the affectionate watching of what is least.
The Divine mind is as visible in its full energy of operation on every lowly bank and mouldering stone as in the lifting of the pillars of heaven, and settling the foundation of the earth.
No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.
In the utmost solitudes of nature, the existence of hell seems to me as legibly declared by a thousand spiritual utterances as that of heaven.
To yield reverence to another, to hold ourselves and our lives at his disposal, is not slavery; often, it is the noblest state in which a man can live in this world.
People are always expecting to get peace in heaven: but you know whatever peace they get there will be ready-made. Whatever making of peace they can be blest for, must be on the earth here.
Multitudes think they like to do evil; yet no man ever really enjoyed doing evil since God made the world.
The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.
What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses?
I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.
To cultivate sympathy you must be among living creatures, and thinking about them; and to cultivate admiration, you must be among beautiful things and looking at them.
We are, after all, only trustees of the wealth we possess. Without the community and its resources... there would be little wealth for anyone.
It is not the church we want, but the sacrifice; not the emotion of admiration, but the act of adoration; not the gift, but the giving.
It is a matter of the simplest demonstration, that no man can be really appreciated but by his equal or superior.
Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future.
Whatever merit there is in anything that I have written is simply due to the fact that when I was a child my mother daily read me a part of the Bible and daily made me learn a part of it by heart.
No one can become rich by the efforts of only their toil, but only by the discovery of some method of taxing the labor of others.
Science is the knowledge of constant things, not merely of passing events, and is properly less the knowledge of general laws than of existing facts.
The beginning and almost the end of all good law is that everyone shall work for their bread and receive good bread for their work.