The more I see the less I know for sure.
Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
It’s so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.
I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
A lot of power and bravery is practice. And some of that is taking the risk to try and be at the table. And then when you’re at the table, taking that first risk to open your mouth and risk being rejected.
Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.
Worthless people love only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.
He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.
A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule.
I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I’ll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.
The late M. Venizelos observed that in all her wars Englandhe should have said Britain, of coursealways wins one battlethe last.
Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.
The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered but a general effect of pleasing impression.
A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
Think with your whole body.
I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.
I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren’t enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.
A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.
If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him.
Adam was but human-this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple’s sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.
Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking.
