If then the power of speech is as great as any that can be named, –if the origin of language is by many philosophers considered nothing short of divine–if by means of words the secrets of the heart are brought to light, pain of soul is relieved, hidden grief is carried off, sympathy conveyed, experience recorded, and wisdom perpetuated, –if by great authors the many are drawn up into unity, national character is fixed, a people speaks, the past and the future, the East and the West are brought into communication with each other, –if such men are, in a word, the spokesmen and the prophets of the human family–it will not answer to make light of Literature or to neglect its study: rather we may be sure that, in proportion as we master it in whatever language, and imbibe its spirit, we shall ourselves become in our own measure the ministers of like benefits to others–be they many or few, be they in the obscurer or the more distinguished walks of life–who are united to us by social ties, and are within the sphere of our personal influence. John Henry Newman
Nothing is as it seems, but something is everything it is made out to be.
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Carroll Bryant
Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?
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Confucius
You'd be surprised how easy some things can be, things you never thought you'd do, when you take self-respect out of the equation.
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Sarah Addison Allen
That vice has often proved an emancipator of the mind, is one of the most humiliating, but, at the same time, one of the most unquestionable facts in history.
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Anonymous
That mortal is a fool who, prospering, thinks his life has any strong foundation; since our fortune's course of action is the reeling way a madman takes, and no one person is ever happy all the time.
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Euripides
More Quotes By John Henry Newman
I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people.
Good is never accomplished except at the cost of those who do it, truth never breaks through except through the sacrifice of those who spread it.
I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.
If then a practical end must be assigned to a University course, I say it is that of training good members of society.. It is the education which gives a man a clear, conscious view of their own opinions and judgements, a truth in developing...
A university training is the great ordinary means to a great but ordinary end; it aims at raising the intellectual tone of society… It is the education which gives a man a clear conscious view of his own opinions and judgments, a truth in developing...
