Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
Kindness is a language the dumb canspeak and the deaf can hear and understand.
It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.
The success of any venture will be helped by prayer, even in the wrong denomination.
Success can be insured only by devising a defense against the contingency plan.
At some time in the life cycle of virtually every organization, its ability to succeed in spite of itself runs out.
Animals feed; man eats. Only the man of intellect and judgment knows how to eat.
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.
The bridges you cross before you come to them are over rivers that aren't there.
Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them.
The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain.
One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake.
How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!
God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is.
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
This is not a contest between persons. The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error. I come to you in defense of a cause as holy as the cause of liberty - the cause of humanity.
Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster children into strength and athletic proportion.
Weep not that the world changes - did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were a cause indeed to weep.
We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.
If there were no mystery left to explore life would get rather dull, wouldn?t it?
There are five things which no one is able to accomplish in this world: first, to cease growing old when he is growing old; second, to cease being sick; third, to cease dying; fourth, to deny dissolution when there is dissolution; fifth, to deny non-being.
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
There are five things which no one is able to accomplish in this world: first, to cease growing old when he is growing old; second, to cease being sick; third, to cease dying; fourth, to deny dissolution when there is dissolution; fifth, to deny non-being.
The world, indeed, is like a dream and the treasures of the world are an alluring mirage! Like the apparent distances in a picture, things have no reality in themselves, but they are like heat haze.
To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
Let no sleep fall upon thy eyes till thou hast thrice re- viewed the transactions of the past day. Where have I turn-ed aside from rectitude? What have I been doing? What haveI left undone, which I ought to have done? Begin thus from the first act, and proceed; and, in conclusion, at the ill which thou hast done, be troubled, and rejoice for the good.
Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.
All things appear and disappear because of the concurrence of causes and conditions. Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else.
Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
I was always an early riser. Happy the man who is! Every morning day comes to him with a virgin's love, full of bloom and freshness. The youth of nature is contagious, like the gladness of a happy child.