“What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic”
“What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic”
“A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents”
“The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs”
“The vices of some men are magnificent”
“The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow, and the men who lend”
“It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man.”
“Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much”