Henry S. Haskins Quotes

The highest grades of humanity have passed through the millstones more than once.

Expletives serve opinions well which are not sure enough of themselves to risk expression in restrained language.

The darkness around us might somewhat light up if we would first practice using the light we have on the place we are.

The way to get the most out of a victory is to follow it with another that makes it look small.

Acting as your own sovereign power, grant yourself oblivion for past offences.

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.

If imagination would disentangle itself from absurdities, soon we should have it harnessed to reason, pulling the same plough.

Sedate ignorance is the last stage of deterioration.

The art of a pedant is to divert his pupils from noticing the smallness of his puddle, and to make them attribute his apparent size to his being a really big toad.

The man who has a dogmatic creed has more time left for his business.

We should train our desires to show the way to our dreams.

We cannot be too earnest, too persistent, too determined, about living superior to the herd instinct.

It is not so much tutoring that the minds needs, but clearer recognition and better use of what it already knows.

Good behavior is the last refuge of mediocrity.

Thought the fool is to be pitied, still he is spared watching spurious wisdom turn to ashes in his head.