William Thayer Shedd Famous Quotes
"Say what men may, it is doctrine that moves the world. He who takes no position will not sway the human intellect."
William Thayer Shedd Quotations
Sweet is a grief well ended.
Aeschylus
"Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd."
Edith Sitwell
A wise man's question contains half the answer.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol
Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.
Samuel Smiles
"Know then thyself, presume not God to scan,The proper study of Mankind is Man."
Alexander Pope
Nature does not proceed by leaps.
Linnaeus
"There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures."
Josiah Gilbert Holland
"Christ is the most perfect image of God, into which we are so renewed as to bear the image of God, in knowledge, purity, righteousness, and true holiness."
John Calvin
"Strong minded, resolutely willed, you can create out of nothing a great business, a huge empire, a new world. Others have and they have no monopoly."
Claude M Bristol
"Though there are very many nations all over the earth, ...there are no more than two kinds of human society, which we may justly call two cities, ...one consisting of those who live according to man, the other of those who live according to God ....To the City of Man belong the enemies of God, ...so inflamed with hatred against the City of God."
Saint Augustine