Will Thomas
Will Thomas
Will Thomas may refer to:...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
history kind newspapers
Histories are a kind of distilled newspapers.
history creeds poetry-is
It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right.
inspirational wise clever
The wise man is but a clever infant, spelling letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity.
school experience heavy
Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
history judgement soldier
Armed Soldier, terrible as Death, relentless as Doom; doing God's judgement on the Enemies of God. It is a phenomenon not of joyful nature; no, but of awful, to be looked at with pious terror and awe.
fire demon invention
The steam-engine I call fire-demon and great; but it is nothing to the invention of fire.
struggle men suffering
Freedom is the one purport, wisely aimed at, or unwisely, of all man's struggles, toilings and sufferings, in this earth.
glasses fire clouds
We call that fire of the black thunder-cloud "electricity," and lecture learnedly about it, and grind the like of it out of glass and silk: but what is it? What made it? Whence comes it? Whither goes it?
witty science statistics
A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures.
mean statistics firsts
'Genius' which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all.
hands heaven sacred
All true work is sacred. In all true work, were it but true hand work, there is something of divineness. Labor, wide as the earth, has its summit in Heaven.
religion
Properly speaking, all true work is religion.
ignorance men statistics
A judicious man uses statistics, not to get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted upon him.
leadership vanquish tolerate
We are not altogether here to tolerate. We are here to resist, to control and vanquish withal.