Austin O'Malley
Austin O'Malley
hell drunkards
There are more gluttons than drunkards in hell.
understanding reason particular
The reason we constantly discover new truth in Shakespeare is that his complete understanding of the particular includes the universal.
son doors heaven
The Son of the Carpenter made the door of heaven so low that you must either take off your plumes or stoop humbly to enter it.
habit easier thistles
It is easier to prevent thistles and habits than to uproot them.
justice hatred may
Partial justice may exist with hatred; full justice requires charity.
pruning persecution orchard
Persecution is as necessary to religion as pruning to an orchard.
sin enough reason
A sin is nothing but a deordination of reason, but that is enough.
patient poet clean
If the poet would avoid pepsis in his patients, his scalpel must be as clean as the surgeon's.
photography color oil
Prose is a photography, poetry is a painting in oil-colors.
men differences endurance
The difference between a mongrel and a thoroughbred, whether brute or man, is not in swiftness, beauty, or endurance, but in courage.
passion sea tragedy
A great tragedy passes from crest to hollow of passion, rises and sinks again, as rhythmically as sea-waves.
jail evil desire
Shame is the turnkey that keeps our evil desires in jail.
women soul secret
They often say woman cannot keep a secret, but every woman in the world, like every man, has a hundred secrets in her own soul which she hides from even herself. The more respectable she is, the more certain it is the secrets exist.
liberty half
Half-liberty comes with wisdom, full liberty with death.