Opportunity makes a thief.
Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.
Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to men’s manners and actions if they be not altogether open. Therefore set it down: That a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral.
There be three things which make a nation great and prosperous: a fertile soil, busy workshops, easy conveyance for men and goods from place to place.
Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.
It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted… but to weigh and consider.
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.
The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.
There are no have-to’s, just choices.
The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
Until we have seen someone’s darkness, we don’t really know who they are. Until we have forgiven someone’s darkness , we don’t really know what love is.
Coercion is evil precisely because itÂ…eliminates an individual as a thinking and valuing person and makes him a bare tool in the achievement of the ends of another.
We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.
Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.
No man is much regarded by the rest of the world. He that considers how little he dwells upon the condition of others, will learn how little the attention of others is attracted by himself. While we see multitudes passing before us, of whom perhaps not one appears to deserve our notice or excites our sympathy, we should remember, that we likewise are lost in the same throng, that the eye which happens to glance upon us is turned in a moment on him that follows us, and that the utmost which we can reasonably hope or fear is to fill a vacant hour with prattle, and be forgotten.
Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity to act despite our fears.
It’s not the adversity, but how you face it.
