Collected Meditations
Showing 22 quotesThere's no credit in not doing what you don't want to do. There's no virtue in not falling, when you're not tempted.— Gilbert Parker
He came by a leap to the goal of purpose, not by the toilsome steps of reason. On the instant his headlong spirit declared his purpose: this was the one being for him in all the world: at this altar he would light a lamp of devotion, and keep it burning forever.— Gilbert Parker
Every man should have laws of his own, I should think; commandments of his own, for every man has a different set of circumstances wherein to work - or worry.— Gilbert Parker
She belongs to a race of delightful women, who never do any harm, whom everybody calls good, and who are very severe on those who do not pretend to be good.— Gilbert Parker
In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind.— Gilbert Parker
There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance.— Gilbert Parker
Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars.— Gilbert Parker
topics:
Love
Nothing is so unproductive as the law. It is expensive whether you win or lose.— Gilbert Parker
topics:
Legal