Quotes about Judgment

When the Day of Judgment dawns and the great conquerers and lawyers and statesmen come to receive their rewards -- their crowns, their laurels, their names carved indelibly upon imperishable marble -- the Almighty will turn to Peter and will say, not without a certain envy when he sees us coming with our books under our arms, Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them here. They have loved reading.

I have sometimes dreamt that when the Day of Judgment dawns and the great conquerors and lawyers and statesmen come to receive their rewards- their crowns, their laurels , their names carved indelibly upon imperishable marble-the Almighty will turn to Peter and will say , not without a certain envy when He sees us coming with our books under our arms, ' Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them here. They have loved reading.

Is it the lot of average human being, however, he asked himself, the criterion by which we judge the measure of civilization?

I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba and cry, 'Tis all barren!

Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.

You don't carry in your countenance a letter of recommendation.

I am the only child of parents who weighed, measured, and priced everything; for whom what could not be weighed, measured, and priced had no existence.

A most excellent man, though I could have wished his trousers not quite so tight in some places and not quite so loose in others.

His shoes looked too large; his sleeve looked too long; his hair looked too limp; his features looked too mean; his exposed throat looked as if a halter would have done it good.

Altogether, the Old Bailey, at that date, was a choice illustration of the precept, that "Whatever is right;" an aphorism that would be as final as it is lazy, did it not include the troublesome consequence, that nothing that ever was, was wrong.

I must bear the consequences as I deserve!

Conscience is a dreadful thing when it accuses man or boy;