William E. Woodward Quotes

A strongly accentuated zoophilism, such as an inordinate love of horses or dogs, throws the emotional nature out of balance; and those who are possessed by it are not likely to care very much for people.

William E. Woodward

• Emotional
• Balance
• Horse

Vanity as an impulse has without doubt been of far more benefit to civilization than modesty has ever been.

William E. Woodward

• Civilization
• Benefits
• Impulse

No man can be a Christian and a soldier at the same time, for the two ideas are wholly incompatible.

William E. Woodward

• Christian
• Military
• Soldier

Washington possessed the superb self-confidence that comes only to men whose inner life is faint, for the inner life is full of nameless doubts.

William E. Woodward

• Confidence
• Possessed
• Superb