James Ellis Quotes

Some few have a natural talent for office-bolding; very many for office-seeking.

A knowledge of general literature is one of the evidences of an enlightened mind; and to give an apt quotation at a fitting time, proves that the mind is stored with sentential lore that can always be used to great advantage by its possessor.

It is a sure sign of a mind not balanced as it ought to be, when it is insensible to the pleasures of the domestic hearth, and to the little joys and endearments of a family.

Newspapers are the world's mirrors.

Literature is the garden of wisdom.

The lazy man aims at nothing, and generally hits it.

Books are the beehives of thought; laconics, the honey taken from them.

Among all the accomplishments of life none are so important as refinement; it is not, like beauty, a gift of Nature, and can only be acquired by cultivation and practice.

Better an ugly face than an ugly mind.

We can all be heroes in our virtues, in our homes, in our lives.

There is no heart without remorse, no life without some misfortune, no one but what is something stained with sin.

The mind paints before the brush.

Style in painting is the same as in writing,-a power over materials, whether words or colors.

Twilight is like death; the dark portal of night comes upon us, to open again in the glorious morning of immortality.

The press should be the voice of the people, not of party.

An inherent sense of man makes him long for an eternal paradise.

A defeat to a brave man is only a victory deferred.