There is something in man which your science cannot satisfy.
Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.
Necessity dispenseth with decorum.
A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.
A good book is the purest essence of a human soul.
The most unhappy of all men is the man who cannot tell what he is going to do, who has got no work cut-out for him in the world, and does not go into it. For work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind,honest work, which you intend getting done.
The glory of a workman, still more of a master workman, that he does his work well, ought to be his most precious possession; like the honor of a soldier, dearer to him than life.
Dinners are defined as 'the ultimate act of communion;' men that can have communion in nothing else, can sympathetically eat together, can still rise into some glow of brotherhood over food and wine.
We were wise indeed, could we discern truly the signs of our own time; and by knowledge of its wants and advantages, wisely adjust our own position in it. Let us, instead of gazing idly into the obscure distance, look calmly around us, for a little, on the perplexed scene where we stand. Perhaps, on a more serious inspection, something of its perplexity will disappear, some of its distinctive characters and deeper tendencies more clearly reveal themselves; whereby our own relations to it, our own true aims and endeavors in it, may also become clearer.
To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.
There is endless merit in a man's knowing when to have done.
I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.
All evil is like a nightmare; the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone.
The condition of the most passionate enthusiast is to be preferred over the individual who, because of the fear of making a mistake, won't in the end affirm or deny anything
A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.
To each is given a certain inward talent, a certain outward environment or fortune; to each by wisest combination of these two, a certain maximum capacity.
The deepest depth of vulgarism is that of setting up money as the ark of the covenant.
A frightful dialect for the stupid, the pedant and dullard sort.
No country can find eternal peace and comfort where the vote of Judas Iscariot is as good as the vote of the Saviour of mankind.
Look to be treated by others as you have treated others.
Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.
He who cannot withal keep his mind to himself cannot practice any considerable thing whatsoever.
When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.
Know what thou canst work at, and work at it like a Hercules.
This London City, with all of its houses, palaces, steam-engines, cathedrals, and huge immeasurable traffic an tumult, what is it but a Thought, but millions of Thoughts made into One-a huge immeasurable Spirit of a Thought, embodied in brick, in iron, smoke, dust, Palaces, Parliaments, Hackney Coaches, Katherine Docks, and the rest of it! Not a brick was made but some man had to think of the making of that brick.
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