Believe me, then, my devoted pupil, there can be nothing at all inconsistent with a prevalence of profound melancholy in your continued piano-playing; whereas, on the contrary, your sudden and permanent cessation might at least surprise your friends and the neighborhood into a light-heartedness temporarily oblivious of the memory of that dear, missing boy, to whom you could not, I hear, give the love already bestowed upon me.

Better to be inconsistent in truth, than consistent in a mistake.

But there are some parts of his career apparently so inconsistent as almost to defy explanation which in any case can be little more than guesswork.

And if in some cases they are apparently contradictory, like the Proverbs and Ecclesiastes, they are equally striking and convincing, and are not more inconsistent than the man himself.

With regard to the much-debated question of vivisection, it seems to me utterly untenable, and eminently inconsistent on the part of those who eat animal food or indulge in field-sports, to maintain that, under no circumstances, is it morally justifiable to inflict pain on the lower animals for the purpose of ascertaining the causes or remedies of disease.

The most honest man must sometimes appear inconsistent for the sake of truth; and the clearer a man's own convictions, the wider will be his charity for those of others.

Because it seems inconsistent to him with a truth which he states and enforces with no less earnestness than reason, that Christ is every moment judging usthat His tribunal is one before which we in our inmost "being are standing nowand that the time will come when we shall know that it is so, and when all that has concealed the Judge from us shall be taken away."

The "Utopia" is none the less interesting because it is one of the most inconsistent of books.