Henry S. Haskins Quotes

When study becomes labor, we had better change the subject-matter as quickly as possible.

Thoughts left unsaid are never wasted.

Proud souls in the true sense are never humbled by adversity.

If someone offers to furnish a sure test, ask what the test was which made the sure test sure.

Tradition supplants inspiration with the warmed-over article.

Stand aloof from your own opinions; they seek to lure you with an illusive certainty.

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

Make a party over your negative thoughts, assuring them that they are the safest, the most cautious, company you have ever kept. At first they will swallow your flattery, but then suddenly, stricken with shame, and knowing themselves for the impostors they are, out and off they will go.

Our portion of life is the whole thing for us.

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

A soul which is truly in earnest is not above disabling the body to discourage dangerous competition.

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.

… memories that never ride anything but sound waves.

It would be as natural for a full-grown tiger to mew as for a man released from the slavery of imitations ever to go back to his neighbor again with: “What do you think of this? What do you advise about that?”

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