There is nothing that you may not get people to believe in if you will only tell it them loud enough and often enough, till the welkin rings with it.

There is nothing that you may not get people to believe in if you will only tell it them loud enough and often enough, till the welkin rings with it.

Charity is a flower not naturally of earthly growth, and it needs manuring with a promise of profit.

Coleridge cried; "O God, how glorious it is to live!" Renan asks, "O God, when will it be worth while to live?" In Nature we echo the poet; in the world we echo the thinker.

To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.

Sport inevitably creates deadness of feeling. No one could take pleasure in it who was sensitive to suffering; and therefore its pursuit by women is much more to be regretted than its pursuit by men, because women pursue much more violently and recklessly what they pursue at all.

Men are always optimists when they look inwards, and pessimists when they look round them.