Quotes from Robert Hall

We should be more anxious that our afflictions should benefit us than that they should be speedily removed from us.

Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed, which is wanting in general history.

The prayer of faith is the only power in the universe to which the great Jehovah yields.

Prayer serves as an edge and border to preserve the web of life from unraveling.

In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits.

A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.

War is nothing less than a temporary repeal of the principles of virtue. It is a system out of which almost all the virtues are excluded, and in which nearly all the vices are included.

Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed, which is wanting in general history.

In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits.

We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days.

Rising health care spending occurs because it is beneficial, not a burden on the economy.

In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best.

The innocence of the intention abates nothing of the mischief of the example.

In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best.

Call things by their right names - Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation.

We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days.

Mankind are apt to be strongly prejudiced in favor of whatever is countenanced by antiquity, enforced by authority, and recommended by custom.

A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.