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.
Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.
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.
Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.
In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.
I do not know any way so sure of making others happy as of being so oneself, to begin with.
The worst use that can be made of success is to boast of it.
Experience is the extract of suffering.
Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?
It takes a great man to make a great listener
The apparent foolishness of others is but too frequently our own ignorance.
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.
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.
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.
You cannot ensure the gratitude of others for a favour conferred upon them in the way which is most agreeable to yourself.
We are pleased with one who instantly assents to our opinions, but we love a proselyte.
Do not be deceived into thinking that how a man acts is the full picture.
The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome.
Alas! it is not the child but the boy that generally survives in the man.
Some persons, instead of making a religion for their God, are content to make a god of their religion.
Many know how to please, but know not when they have ceased to give pleasure.
A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.
When we consider the incidents of former days, and perceive, while reviewing the long line of causes, how the most important events of our lives originated in the most trifling circumstances; how the beginning of our greatest happiness or greatest misery is to be attributed to a delay, to an accident, to a mistake; we learn a lesson of profound humility.
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