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Truth is its [justice's] handmaid, freedom is its child, peace is its companion, safety walks in its steps, victory follows in its train; it is the brightest emanation from the Gospel; it is the greatest attribute of God.
Lady Holland's Memoir (1855)
Let onion atoms lurk within the bowl,
And, half-suspected, animate the whole.
We know nothing of tomorrow; our business is to be good and happy today.
Lady Holland's Memoir (1855)
In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigour it will give your style.
Lady Holland's Memoir (1855)
The English, generally remarkable for doing very good things in a very bad manner, seem to have reserved the maturity and plenitude of their awkwardness for the pulpit.
Lady Holland's Memoir (1855)
Preaching has become a byword for long and dull conversation of any kind; and whoever wishes to imply, in any piece of writing, the absence of everything agreeable and inviting, calls it a sermon.
Lady Holland's Memoir (1855)
All great and extraordinary actions come from the heart. There are seasons in human affairs, when qualities fit enough to conduct the common business of life, are feeble and useless; and when men must trust to emotion, for that safety which reason at such times can never give.
Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy (1849)
I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland.
Lady Holland's Memoir (1855)
The world is like a board with holes in it, and the square men have got into the round holes.
Serenely full, the epicure would say,
Fate cannot harm me, I have dined today.
Lady Holland's Memoir (1855)
She looked as if she had walked straight out of the ark.
Lady Holland's Memoir (1855)
Looked as if she had walked straight out of the Ark.
To take Macaulay out of literature and society and put him in the House of Commons, is like taking the chief physician out of London during a pestilence.
Lady Holland's Memoir (1855)
The most curious offspring of shame is shyness.
You remember Thurlow's answer to some one complaining of the injustice of a company. "Why, you never expected justice from a company, did you? they have neither a soul to lose, nor a body to kick."
Lady Holland's Memoir (1855)
He was a one-book man. Some men have only one book in them; others, a library.
Lady Holland's Memoir (1855)
[M]en who prefer any load of infamy, however great, to any pressure of taxation, however light.
One of the best methods of rendering study agreeable is to live with able men, and to suffer all those pangs of inferiority which the want of knowledge always inflicts.
For God's sake, do not drag me into another war! I am worn down, and worn out, with crusading and defending Europe, and protecting mankind; I must think a little of myself.
No furniture so charming as books.
Lady Holland's Memoir (1855)