Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.
Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment.
The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.
Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.
Men rattle their chains-to manifest their freedom.
The worst use that can be made of success is to boast of it.
Experience is the extract of suffering.
Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.
If you are often deceived by those around you, you may be sure that you deserve to be deceived; and that instead of railing at the general falseness of mankind, you have first to pronounce judgment on your own jealous tyranny, or on your own weak credulity.
In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.
To hear always, to think always, to learn always, it is thus that we live truly. He who aspires to nothing, who learns nothing, is not worthy of living.
Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.
He who is continually changing his point of view sees more, and more clearly, than one who, statue-like, forever stands upon the same pedestal; however lofty and well-placed that pedestal may be.
There is hardly a more common error than that of taking the man who has one talent, for a genius.
I do not know any way so sure of making others happy as of being so oneself, to begin with.
Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?
It is quite impossible to understand the character of a person from one action, however striking that action may be.
It takes a great man to make a great listener
There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.
The apparent foolishness of others is but too frequently our own ignorance.
More than half the difficulties of the world would be allayed or removed by the exhibition of good temper.
The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome.
We are pleased with one who instantly assents to our opinions, but we love a proselyte.
The most enthusiastic man in a cause is rarely chosen as the leader.
Any one who is much talked of be much maligned. This seems to be a harsh conclusion; but when you consider how much more given men are to depreciate than to appreciate, you will acknowledge that there is some truth in the saying.
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