41 Quotes by John Mason Brown

I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with Blood.

The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.

I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.

The more one has seen of the good, the more one asks for the better.

What a man is is the basis owhat he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.

Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Some television programs are so much chewing gum for the eyes.

God spare me sclerosis of the curiosity, for the curiosity which craves to keep us informed about the small things no less than the large is the mainspring, the dynamo, the jet propulsion of all complete living.

I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.