F. W. Robertson
Cited as F. W. Robertson. — 24 quotations
Bribe
Neither is he worthy who bribes a man to vote against his conscience.
Cajole
I am not about to cajole or flatter you into a reception of my views.
Calculate
The strong passions, whether good or bad, never calculate.
Conventionalism
They gaze on all with dead, dim eyes, -- wrapped in conventionalisms, . . . simulating feelings according to a received standard.
Delicate
There are some things too delicate and too sacred to be handled rudely without injury to truth.
Derogation
He counted it no derogation of his manhood to be seen to weep.
Finery
Her mistress' cast-off finery.
Idiocy
I will undertake to convict a man of idiocy, if he can not see the proof that three angles of a triangle are equal to two right angles.
Immeasurableness
Eternity and immeasurableness belong to thought alone.
Incarnation
The very incarnation of selfishness.
Intact
When all external differences have passed away, one element remains intact, unchanged, -- the everlasting basis of our common nature, the human soul.
Intensity
If you would deepen the intensity of light, you must be content to bring into deeper blackness and more distinct and definite outline the shade that accompanies it.
Laugh
That man is a bad man who has not within him the power of a hearty laugh.
Level
When merit shall find its level.
Politics
When we say that two men are talking politics, we often mean that they are wrangling about some mere party question.
Radicalism
Radicalism means root work; the uprooting of all falsehoods and abuses.
Recoil
The recoil from formalism is skepticism.
Rhetorician
The understanding is that by which a man becomes a mere logician and a mere rhetorician.
Spectral
He that feels timid at the spectral form of evil is not the man to spread light.
Uniform
There are many things which, a soldier will do in his plain clothes which he scorns to do in his uniform.
Ventilation
Insuring, for the laboring man, better ventilation.
Vote
To vote on large principles, to vote honestly, requires a great amount of information.
War
Men will ever distinguish war from mere bloodshed.
Weather
You will weather the difficulties yet.