Will Thomas

Will Thomas
Will Thomas may refer to:...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
belief excellent conviction
Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.
sports integrity athlete
No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.
elements mysterious mystery
Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
creativity being-alone people
History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.
Society is founded upon Cloth;
book people blank
Happy the people whose annals are blank in the history books!
lying dupes raw-materials
Dishonesty is the raw material not of quacks only, but also in great part dupes.
lying heart light
Let him who gropes painfully in darkness or uncertain light, and prays vehemently that the dawn may ripen into day, lay this precept well to heart: "Do the duty which lies nearest to thee," which thou know to be a duty! Thy second duty will already have become clearer.
clothes earth world
It is meritorious to insist on forms; religion and all else naturally clothes itself in forms. Everywhere the formed world is the only habitable one.
facts fool teach
Experience of actual fact either teaches fools or abolishes them.
thinking parent deeds
Thought is the parent of the deed.
fake-people echoes coquette
I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.
men records biographies
Rich as we are in biography, a well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one; and there are certainly many more men whose history deserves to be recorded than persons willing and able to record it.
men law smoking
Tobacco smoke is the one element in which, by our European manners, men can sit silent together without embarrassment, and where no man is bound to speak one word more than he has actually and veritably got to say. Nay, rather every man is admonished and enjoined by the laws of honor, and even of personal ease, to stop short of that point; and at all events to hold his peace and take to his pipe again the instant he has spoken his meaning, if he chance to have any.