Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.
Lord Byron

Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.
Lord Byron

The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.
John Muir

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.
Blaise Pascal

The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
James Madison

Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
James Madison

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.
Charles Spurgeon

People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.
Andy Rooney

The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
Carl Jung

Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
Frederick Douglass

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
Francis Bacon

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.
Francis Bacon

The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing.
Marcel Proust

The problem with winter sports is that - follow me closely here - they generally take place in winter.
Dave Barry

Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.
Aldous Huxley

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.
Aldous Huxley

She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).
Lewis Carroll