The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.
We women are always in danger of living too exclusively in the affections; and though our affections are perhaps the best gifts we have, we ought also to have our share of the more independent life — some joy in things for their own sake. It is piteous to see the helplessness of some sweet women when their affections are disappointed — because all their teaching has been, that they can only delight in study of any kind for the sake of a personal love. They have never contemplated an independent delight in ideas as an experience which they could confess without being laughed at. Yet surely women need this defense against passionate affliction even more than men.
Knowledge exists to be imparted.
Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.
The chief mourner does not always attend the funeral.
Fueling your body is a process… The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Suspicion is most often useless pain.
In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is necessary to keep wheels turning.
The affairs of the world will go on forever. Do not delay the practice of meditation.
He walked out into the cold morning asking himself this heretical question: Can you start measuring a minute at any instant you wish?
The cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy. It is the only dictator that free man acknowledges. It is the only security that free man desires.
We falsely attribute to men a determined character, putting together all their yesterdays and averaging them, we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support, it is worse than a large family, he is the silent poor indeed.
The most difficult We do not deal in facts when we are contemplating ourselves.
Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
Can you really explain to a fish what it’s like to walk on land? One day on land is worth a thousand years of talking about it, and one day running a business has exactly the same kind of value.
Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.
The drama’s laws, the drama’s patrons give, for we that live to please, must please to live.
Tis a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration.
