Henry S. Haskins Quotes

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

We condemn a sin before we have even tried it.

Some live lies who won’t tell them; some tell lies who won’t live them.

Having climbed to a height, it is easier to slip from it than to stay there after the zest of striving is removed.

Man is liberated from his illusions to make room for a fresh set.

How often our bosom swells and our temples throb to a thought which proves itself not to be worth anything but for the exaltation we feel while the swelling and throbbing are going on, which after all is something.

The deadliest contagion is majority opinion.

Ugly facts are a challenge to beautify them.

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

For a competent audience, uncommon men must have other uncommon men.

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

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

Symbols have a trick of stealing the show away from the thing they stand for.

Discontent follows ambition like a shadow.

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