Henry S. Haskins Quotes

The unfortunate who has to travel for amusement lacks capacity for amusement.

Vacant minds have their uses, yet it seems a pity to waste first-class bodies on them.

Many a superior brain is blockaded by inferior thoughts.

Some have half-baked ideas because their ideals are not heated up enough.

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

Twenty is in hot haste to become a year older and cast its first vote, which Forty will know was cast like the legendary pearls.

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.

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?”

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

Dive where the water is deep.

… memories that never ride anything but sound waves.

Remembrance of hopes that were silly has an especial tenderness, for much of their silliness came from a thoughtless credulity which we would be glad to have back again.

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

Our portion of life is the whole thing for us.

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