Proofs Quotes

I confess that reading proofs is a pleasure. It stimulates and inspires me.

I have had friends who have acted kindly towards me, and it has been my good fortune to have it in my power to give them substantial proofs of my gratitude.

Then you start another book and suddenly the galley proofs of the last one come in and you have to wrench your attention away from what you`re writing and try to remember what you were thinking when you wrote the previous one.

An administration without a police executive is powerless and there were many proofs of this.

I explained to the lady my love for John and his work, and she made it possible for me to purchase one of the 24 proofs, the one for `I`m So Tired,` which I have on my piano at home.

In this connection, faith and experience teach us many truths by means of the short-cut of authority and by the proofs of very pleasant and agreeable feelings.

Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love. If I do not love a person I am not moved to help him by proofs that he is in need; if I do love him, I wait for no proof of a special need to urge me to help him.

Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it.

After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question.