Buckminster
Cited as Buckminster. — 30 quotations
Blush
In the presence of the shameless and unblushing, the young offender is ashamed to blush.
Charity
The highest exercise of charity is charity towards the uncharitable.
Disciplinary
The evils of the . . . are disciplinary and remedial.
Disputatious
The Christian doctrine of a future life was no recommendation of the new religion to the wits and philosophers of that disputations period.
Distemper
The imagination, when completely distempered, is the most incurable of all disordered faculties.
Dwell
They stand at a distance, dwelling on his looks and language, fixed in amazement.
Escalade
Sin enters, not by escalade, but by cunning or treachery.
Grope
To grope a little longer among the miseries and sensualities ot a worldly life.
Habitual
It is the distinguishing mark of habitual piety to be grateful for the most common and ordinary blessings.
Hardihood
It is the society of numbers which gives hardihood to iniquity.
Health
Though health may be enjoyed without gratitude, it can not be sported with without loss, or regained by courage.
Impurity
Profaneness, impurity, or scandal, is not wit.
Incredulity
Of every species of incredulity, religious unbelief is the most irrational.
Integrity
The moral grandeur of independent integrity is the sublimest thing in nature.
malady
The maladies of the body may prove medicines to the mind.
Materialism
The irregular fears of a future state had been supplanted by the materialism of Epicurus.
Precursor
Evil thoughts are the invisible, airy precursors of all the storms and tempests of the soul.
Presumptuous
A class of presumptuous men, whom age has not made cautious, nor adversity wise.
Probability
The whole life of man is a perpetual comparison of evidence and balancing of probabilities.
Profanity
The brisk interchange of profanity and folly.
Religion
Religion will attend you . . . as a pleasant and useful companion, in every proper place, and every temperate occupation of life.
Respond
A new affliction strings a new cord in the heart, which responds to some new note of complaint within the wide scale of human woe.
Ruin
The labor of a day will not build up a virtuous habit on the ruins of an old and vicious character.
School
What is the great community of Christians, but one of the innumerable schools in the vast plan which God has instituted for the education of various intelligences?
Scripture
Compared with the knowledge which the Scriptures contain, every other subject of human inquiry is vanity.
Sympathize
The mind will sympathize so much with the anguish and debility of the body, that it will be too distracted to fix itself in meditation.
Temple
Can he whose life is a perpetual insult to the authority of God enter with any pleasure a temple consecrated to devotion and sanctified by prayer?
Time
Believe me, your time is not your own; it belongs to God, to religion, to mankind.
Traditionary
The reveries of the Talmud, a collection of Jewish traditionary interpolations.
Transmute
The caresses of parents and the blandishments of friends transmute us into idols.