For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.
Not in the clamor of the crowded street, Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, But in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest!
Ah, how skillful grows the hand That obeyeth Love's command! It is the heart and not the brain That to the highest doth attain, And he who followeth Love's behest Far excelleth all the rest.
Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.
Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
For his heart was in his work, and the heart Giveth grace unto every Art.
Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.
I think a lot more decisions are made on serendipity than people think. Things come across their radar screens and they jump at them.
Here is the beginning of understanding: most parents are doing their best, and most children are doing their best, and they?re doing pretty well, all things considered.
Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.
Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
We look at death through the cheap-glazed windows of the flesh, and believe him the monster which the flawed and cracked glass represents him.
He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson of statecraft.
Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.
There are three great questions which in life we have over and over again to answer: Is it right or wrong? Is it true or false? Is it beautiful or ugly? Our education ought ot help us to answer these questions.
There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.
We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from...Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.
There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.
There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.
The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider...The riders contend for its possession.
Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your conscience on the other.
I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.
In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.
I do not know the dignity of his birth, but I do know the glory of his death.
The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.
In business everyone is out to grab, to fight, to win. Either you are the under or the over dog. It is up to you to be on top.
In business you get what you want by giving other people what they want.
Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage, than the creation of a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institutions and merely lukewarm defenders in those who would gain by the new ones.
A new system is a hard thing to put into place, it is opposed by those that would be disadvantaged by the new system and it receives no support from those that would benefit.
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the leadin the introduction of a new order to things.