H. R. Haweis Quotes. James Wood, comp. 1899. Dictionary of Quotations

James Wood, comp. Dictionary of Quotations. 1899.

H. R. Haweis


All good government must begin at home.	1
Emotion is the atmosphere in which thought is steeped, that which lends to thought its tone or temperature, that to which thought is often indebted for half its power.	2
Emotion, not thought, is the sphere of music; and emotion quite as often precedes as follows thought.	3
Feeling comes before reflection.	4
Give God the margin of eternity to justify Himself in.	5
It is as easy to be a scholar as a gamester.	6
Man may doubt here and there, but mankind does not doubt.	7
Precious beyond price are good resolutions. Valuable beyond price are good feelings.	8
When words end, music begins; when they suggest, it realises.	9
Words are but poor interpreters in the realms of emotion. When all words end, music begins; when they suggest, it realises; and hence the secret of its strange, ineffable power.	10