Claudius Buchanan quotes

“Every branch of knowledge which a good man possesses, he may apply to some good purpose.”
-- Claudius Buchanan

Source : Claudius Buchanan (1811). “Two Discourses Preached Before the University of Cambridge, on Commencement Sunday, July 1, 1810: And a Sermon Preached Before the Society for Missions to Africa and the East; at Their Tenth Anniversary, July 12, 1810. To which are Added Christian Researches in Asia”, p.64

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“It is an anomaly that information, the one thing most necessary to our survival as choosers of our own way, should be a commodity subject to the same merchandising rules as chewing gum.”

“I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.”

“He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers' melt waters to go back”

“We may not preach a crucified Saviour without being also crucified men and women. It is not enough to wear an ornamental cross as a pretty decoration. The cross that Paul speaks about was burned into his very flesh, was branded into his being, and only the Holy Spirit can burn the true cross into our innermost life.”

“The sanctified body is one whose hands are clean. The stain of dishonesty is not on them, the withering blight of ill-gotten gain has not blistered them, the mark of violence is not found upon them. They have been separated from every occupation that could displease God or injure a fellow-man.”

“When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, `Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies But keep your fancy free.' But I was one-and-twenty No use to talk to me. When I was one-and-twenty I heard him say again, `The heart out of the bosom Was never given in vain; 'Tis paid with sighs a plenty And sold for endless rue.' And I am two-and-twenty And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.”

“There are plagues, and there are victims, and it's the duty of good men not to join forces with the plagues.”

“States are doomed when they are unable to distinguish good men from bad.”

Source : "Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers" by Diogenes Laërtius, (§ 5),

“God makes all things good; Man meddles with 'em and they become evil.”

“The virtue of the good man is necessarily the same as the virtue of the citizen of the perfect state.”