Will Christian
Will Christian
inspirational witty able
Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.
writing hands genius
Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
inspirational saint christian-living
Living with a saint is more grueling than being one.
stars dark heaven
Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.
men animal stones
The Breath becomes a stone; the stone, a plant; the plant, an animal; the animal, a man; the man, a spirit; and the spirit, a god.
men complaining knaves
The life even of a just man is a round of petty frauds; that of a knave a series of greater. We degrade life by our follies and vices, and then complain that the unhappiness which is only their accompaniment is inherent in the constitution of things.
character giving events
Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
courage easier dies
It is easier to die bravely than to live so.
cutting men yawning
What a position of transcendent horror must that be, where the perpetrator of a great crime, till then a stranger to positive guilt, finds himself suddenly cut off, and forever, from all human sympathy, isolated from hope, the tenant of a solitary cell, and with a wide, impassable gulf yawning between him and that great brotherhood of which he has ceased to be a part--no longer regarded as a man, but as a monster in the shape of one, from whom Mercy herself turns away, and for whom Pity even has no tears!
justice criticism balance
The method of the critic is to balance praises with censure, and thus to do justice to the subject and--his own discrimination.
hero heart persistence
Perhaps the heroic element in our natures is exhibited to the best advantage, not in going from success to success, and so on through a series of triumphs, but in gathering, on the very field of defeat itself, the materials for renewed efforts, and in proceeding, with no abatement of heart or energy, to form fresh designs upon the very ruins and ashes of blasted hopes. Yes, it is this indomitable persistence in a purpose, continued alike through defeat and success, that makes, more than aught else, the hero.
humor water firsts
By his provocations to good-natured merriment, a humorist of the first water contributes as much to the sum of happiness as the gravest philosopher.
illusion
An illusion dissipated is an experience gained.
character men expression
The language denotes the man. A coarse or refined character finds its expression naturally in a coarse or refined phraseology.