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Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
[ Fashion ]
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Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.
[ Prejudice ]
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The great rule: If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special.
[ Talent ]
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As the few adepts in such things well know, universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones. There is so much goodness and ingenuity in a raindrop that an apothecary wouldn't let it go for less than half-a-crown...
[ Things ]
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The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.
[ Things ]
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To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.
[ Self Knowledge ]
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To be content with life -- or to live merrily, rather --all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow.
[ Contentment ]
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Of all the inventions of man I doubt whether any was more easily accomplished than that of a Heaven.
[ Heaven ]
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The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put up and take down portraits all day long and make such a hammering you can't hear yourself speak.
[ Journalism ]
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Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.
[ Achievement ]
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The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.
[ Simplicity ]
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The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.
[ Worry ]
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There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no Christians. It could therefore easily be possible that people are Christians because true Christianity corresponds to what they would have been even if Christianity did not exist.
[ Christianity ]
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Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.
[ Passion ]
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A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.
[ Praise ]
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Reason now gazes above the realm of the dark but warm feelings as the Alpine peaks do above the clouds. They behold the sun more clearly and distinctly, but they are cold and unfruitful.
[ Reason ]
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Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be re-taught when the students become teachers.
[ Teachers ]
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A schoolteacher or professor cannot educate individuals, he educates only species.
[ Teachers ]
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One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.
[ Habit ]
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A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.
[ Fools ]
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