Henry S. Haskins Quotes

The man who feels that he must be hopeful and cheerful to get along ignores the careers of some pretty successful misanthropes.

Where you find imagination tracing the outlines and reason filling in the details, there you have a man.

There never is any diminution of the vast majority, indifferent to what they are, whence they came, and whither they go, who rush from business to pastime, and from pastime back to business, leaving no vacancy into which the unknown might slip a little experimental greatness.

The tongues of conscience need a conscience of their own to keep them from speaking before they know what they are talking about.

We fall short when we ascribe all the modes of happiness to walking in paths of rectitude. There are joys which only tramps and thieves know.

… memories that never ride anything but sound waves.

Our portion of life is the whole thing for us.

Many of us are impersonations of what we know we ought to be.

When you start to indulge yourself, remember it is what they do with invalids and children.

It is the honest lies we tell—statements factually correct and essentially deceiving—which debauch our manhood and stunt our growth.

It is the semi-learned who scorn the ignorant; the learned know too much about them for that.

Sedate ignorance is the last stage of deterioration.

Some talk in quarto volumes and act in pamphlets.

Not a little of our condemnation of the acts of others is spillage from our own condemnation of our own acts.

There is not an ounce of our former strength which is not doing some sort of job, right now.