1897 · Skopia

Showing 45 quotes from 1897

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus... Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.

Francis Pharcellus Church

1897

★ 8.3

Travel writing

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

Mark Twain

Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World · 1897

★ 7.7

Note

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

1897

★ 7.3

Essay

Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen.

Leo Tolstoy

What Is Art? · 1897

★ 6.4

Letter

To recognise that the soul of a man is unknowable, is the ultimate achievement of wisdom. The final mystery is oneself. When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens star by star, there still remains oneself. Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul?

Oscar Wilde

De Profundis · 1897

★ 6.1

Letter

One writes only half the book; the other half is with the reader.

Joseph Conrad

1897

★ 5.5

Letter

Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.

Oscar Wilde

De Profundis · 1897

★ 5.5

Novel

My task... To make you hear, to make you feel—it is, before all, to make you see. That—and no more, and it is everything.

Joseph Conrad

1897

★ 5.4

My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel—it is, before all, to make you see. That—and no more, and it is everything.

Joseph Conrad

1897

★ 5.3

It is revolting to have no better reason for a rule of law than that so it was laid down in the time of Henry IV. It is still more revolting if the grounds upon which it was laid down have vanished long since, and the rule simply persists from blind imitation of the past.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

1897

★ 4.3

Travel writing

Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

Mark Twain

Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World · 1897

★ 4.0

Travel writing

True irreverence is disrespect for another man's god.

Mark Twain

Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World · 1897

★ 4.0

Travel writing

The man with a new idea is a Crank until the idea succeeds.

Mark Twain

Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World · 1897

★ 4.0

Travel writing

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

Mark Twain

Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World · 1897

★ 4.0

Travel writing

Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to.

Mark Twain

Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World · 1897

★ 4.0

Travel writing

Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either.

Mark Twain

Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World · 1897

★ 3.9

Travel writing

The timid man yearns for full value and asks a tenth. The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par.

Mark Twain

Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World · 1897

★ 3.9

Travel writing

The secret source of Humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

Mark Twain

Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World · 1897

★ 3.9

Travel writing

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.

Mark Twain

Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World · 1897

★ 3.9

Travel writing

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.

Mark Twain

Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World · 1897

★ 3.9

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