20 Quotes by Hugh Blair

Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.

The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible.

Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our manner.

What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

In the eye of that Supreme Being to whom our whole internal frame is uncovered, dispositions hold the place of actions.

It is pride which fills the world with so much harshness and severity. We are rigorous to offenses as if we had never offended.

Taste consists in the power of judging; genius in the power of executing.

As the primary end of History is to record truth, impartiality, fidelity and accuracy are the fundamental qualities of an Historian.