W. L. George Quotes
The hardest thing to attain... is the appreciation of difference without insisting on superiority.
It is the unbroken testimony of all history that alcoholic liquors have been used by the strongest, wisest, handsomest, and in every way best races of all times.
faith is like love; when you want it you can't find it, and you find it when you least expect it.
No human being can control love, and no one is to blame either for feeling it or for losing it. What alone degrades a woman is falsehood.
Know how to replace in your heart, by the happiness of those you love, the happiness that may be wanting to yourself
God has written in the law of nature that when two people are joined in love or friendship, one must always give his heart more perfectly than the other.
One wastes so much time, one is so prodigal of life, at twenty! Our days of winter count for double. That is the compensation of the old.
I see upon their noble brows the seal of the Lord, for they were born kings of the earth far more truly than those who possess it only from having bought it.
A man is not a wall, whose stones are crushed upon the road; or a pipe, whose fragments are thrown away at a street corner. The fragments of an intellect are always good.
Acting is like roller skating. Once you know how to do it, it is neither stimulating nor exciting.
Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.
Prayer is not a substitute for work; it is an effort to work further and be efficient beyond the range of one's powers.
Men have feverishly conceived a heaven only to find it insipid, and a hell to find it ridiculous.
The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.
Miracles are propitious accidents, the natural causes of which are too complicated to be readily understood.
When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.
Truth is a jewel which should not be painted over; but it may be set to advantage and shown in a good light.
People are usually more firmly convinced that their opinions are precious than that they are true.
Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.
Culture is on the horns of this dilemma: if profound and noble it must remain rare, if common it must become mean.
We crave support in vanity, as we do in religion, and never forgive contradictions in that sphere.
I believe in the possibility of happiness, if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions, including optimism.
Nothing you can lose by dying is half as precious as the readiness to die, which is man's charter of nobility.
Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel.
Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.
There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.
It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.
Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavour to understand him.
Profound skepticism is favorable to conventions, because it doubts that the criticism of conventions is any truer than they are.
Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first loves.
A grateful environment is a substitute for happiness. It can quicken us from without as a fixed hope and affection, or as the consciousness of a right life, can quicken us from within.
Historical investigation has for its aim to fix the order and character of events throughout past time and in all places. The task is frankly superhuman.
why shouldnt things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? they are so, and we are so, and they and we go together.
