Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It’s thin current slides away, but eternity remains.
If thou wouldst rule well, thou must rule for God; and to do that, thou must be ruled by him who has given to kings his grace to command themselves and their subjects, and to the people the grace to obey God and their kings.
Who’s not sat tense before his own heart’s curtain.
If you learn to practice love, compassion, joy, and equanimity, you will know how to heal the illnesses of anger, sorrow, insecurity, sadness, hatred, loneliness, and unhealthy attachments.
I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better.
I suffer whenever I see that common sight of a parent or senior imposing his opinion and way of thinking and being on a young soul to which they are totally unfit. Cannot we let people be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make that man another you. One’s enough.
Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
A strenuous soul hates cheap success.
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the airplane, the pessimist the parachute.
Think with your whole body.
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg…
To be in time is to be asleep: to be awake is to be in eternity.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
What a new face courage puts on everything!
The years teach much what the days never knew.
Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
