Will Thomas
Will Thomas
Will Thomas may refer to:...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
life-and-love men action
The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.
justice violence doe
Violence does even justice unjustly.
government liberty machines
Government is emphatically a machine: to the discontented a taxing machine, to the contented a machine for securing property.
home biblical men
The Bible is the truest utterance that ever came by alphabetic letters from the soul of man, through which, as through a window divinely opened, all men can look into the stillness of eternity, and discern in glimpses their far-distant, long-forgotten home.
humanity gorillas no-patience
I have no patience whatever with these gorilla damnifications of humanity.
violence violent endure
No violent extreme endures.
decorum
Necessity dispenseth with decorum.
sadness space waste
A sad spectacle. If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly. If they be not inhabited, what a waste of space.
men wish ifs
If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.
kind speak truth-is
If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
conservative
All great peoples are conservative.
men stupidity may
With stupidity and sound digestion, man may front much.
trying might vices
Might and right do differ frightfully from hour to hour, but then centuries to try it in, they are found to be identical.
wise heaven soul
The Builder of this Universe was wise, He plann'd all souls, all systems, planets, particles: The Plan He shap'd all Worlds and Æons by, Was-Heavens!-was thy small Nine-and-thirty Articles!