Latter Quotes
State a moral case to a plowman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, and often better than the latter, because he has not been led astray by artificial rules.
If photography is to be likened to perception, this is not because the former is a natural process but because the latter is also coded.
There are some persons who are content with everything and others who are scarcely content with anything. These latter need patience to bear with themselves.
The difference between a rich man and a poor man is this--the former eats when he pleases, and the latter when he can get it.
Mankind has always made too much of its saints and heroes, and how the latter handle the fuss might be called their final test.
Mankind are so ready to bestow their admiration on the dead, because the latter do not hear it, or because it gives no pleasure to the objects of it. Even fame is the offspring of envy.
There must always be a discrepncy between concepts and reality, because the former are static and discontinuous while the latter is dynamic and flowing
Doubt is a difficult animal to master because it requires that we learn the difference between doubting God and doubting what we believe about God. The former has the potential to destroy faith
Resistances do not derive from a few heterogeneous principles