Each person has the right to take part in the management of public affairs in his country, provided he has prior experience, a will to succeed, a college degree, influential parents, good looks, a resume, two 3X4 snapshots, and a good tax record.
As unmarried business women we must constantly use our opportunities in business in such a way that we are prepared for the marriage which may be ours tomorrow.
... business training in early life should not be regarded solely as insurance against destitution in the case of an emergency. For from business experience women can gain, too, knowledge of the world and of human beings, which should be of immeasurable value to their marriage careers. Self-discipline, co-operation, adaptability, efficiency, economic management,?if she learns these in her business life she is liable for many less heartbreaks and disappointments in her married life.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game. The cynic puts all human actions into two classes - openly bad and secretly bad.
There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is: that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.
The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes men from animals.
Ambition is a lust that's never quenched, grows more inflamed, and madder by enjoyment.
Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.
Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it; the one brings fuel, the other blows it till it burns clear.
Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.
Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, Easy-going enough once you acknowledge his power.
Luck affects everything. let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish.
If it were in my power, I would be wiser; but a newly felt power carries me off in spite of myself; love leads me one way, my understanding another.
What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.
Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and row brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression.
There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord.
When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.
Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.
It is the business of thought to define things, to find the boundaries; thought, indeed, is a ceaseless process of definition. It is the business of Art to give things shape. Anyone who takes no delight in the firm outline of an object, or in its essential character, has no artistic sense....
It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.
An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards
The holy man, though he be distressed, does not eat food mixed with wickedness. The lion, though hungry, will not eat what is unclean.
Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.