Will Thomas
Will Thomas
Will Thomas may refer to:...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
long france despotism
France was long a despotism tempered by epigrams.
time naps way
Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
inspirational men patterns
Great men are the modelers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men contrived to do and attain.
inspiration speech kind
Music... a kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads to the edge of the Infinite.
basketball defeat attainment
It is in general more profitable to reckon up our defeats than to boast of our attainments.
country eye men
I have seen gleams in the face and eyes of the man that have let you look into a higher country.
men vision noses
No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
parent world events
Nay, in every epoch of the world, the great event, parent of all others, is it not the arrival of a Thinker in the world?
wise science important
Statistics is a science which ought to be honourable, the basis of many most important sciences; but it is not to be carried on by steam, this science, any more than others are; a wise head is requisite for carrying it on.
work men cities
A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.
hands body temples
There is but one temple in this Universe: The Body. We speak to God whenever we lay our hands upon it.
art fall mad
The fine arts once divorcing themselves from truth are quite certain to fall mad, if they do not die.
art character men
No sooner does a great man depart, and leave his character as public property, than a crowd of little men rushes towards it. There they are gathered together, blinking up to it with such vision as they have, scanning it from afar, hovering round it this way and that, each cunningly endeavoring, by all arts, to catch some reflex of it in the little mirror of himself.
sweet jesus gentleman
If those gentlemen would let me alone I should be much obliged to them. I would say, as Shakespeare would say... Sweet Friend, for Jesus sake forbear.