In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.  Genesis 1:1
In this world you will have tribulation, but be of good cheer for I have overcome the world.  John 16:33
For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.  John 3:16
More things are caught by the child observing the parent than remembered by things that are taught by the words of the parent.
A man is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot loose. - Elliot
Tyranny of all kinds is to be abhorred, whether it be in the hands of one, or of the few, or of the many.  - James Otis
It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, peace, peace-but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms!  Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God!-I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!	Patrick Henry, "Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death" Virginia House of Burgesses, 3/25/1775
Nations, no less than individuals, are subject to the eternal and immutable laws of justice and morality.  - Quincy Adams
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights.  Declaration of Independence
A page of history is worth a volume of logic.  - Wendell Holmes
Small minds talk about other people.  Average minds talk about events.  Great minds talk about ideas.
I don't want to be a number on a turnstile, another figure in a government file.  I don't want to be a byte in a program, seven digits on a telephone dial.  Fast forward, fast forward, time keeps slipping away. Fast forward, fast forward, my lifes got to count for something more.  Prodigal (Christian Band)
Religion begat prosperity, and the daughter devoured the mother.  - Cotton Mather
It is the purpose of the First Amendment to preserve an uninhibited marketplace of ideas in which truth will ultimately prevail.  - Byron White
Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written Constitution.  Let us not make it a blank paper by construction.  - Thomas Jefferson
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.  First Amendment, U.S.  Constitution.
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.  - George Santayana
Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it.  - George Santayana
Prosperity is too fulsome a diet for any man ... unless seasoned with some grains of adversity.  - Judge Samuel Sewall
In matters of religion I have considered that its free exercise is placed by the Constitution independent of the power of the General [federal] government.  - Thomas Jefferson
Posterity - you will never know how much it cost my generation to preserve you freedom.  I hope you will make good use of it.  - John Quincy Adams
It is impossible to govern rightly without God and the Bible.  - George Washington
Our Constitution was made for a moral and religious people.  It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other.  - John Adams
My God!  How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of and which no other people in the earth enjoy!  - Thomas Jefferson
Lastly, our ancestors established their system of government on morality and religious sentiment.  - Daniel Webster
All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind are convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.  - Aristotle
The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.  - Dwight Eisenhower
I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go.  My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for the day.  - Abraham Lincoln
It must be felt that there is no national security but in the nation's humble, acknowledged dependence upon God and His overruling providence.  - John Adams
If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and forgive their sins and will heal their land.  2 Chronicles 7:14
We are all in the same boat, so it is to our advantage for smoother sailing if we all row together.
There are those who read about great lives, and there are those who live life such that people write about them.
A man is measured by the following: the height of his hopes, the depth of his convictions, the breadth of his compassion, and the length of his patience.
I fear for my country when I remember that God is just.  - Thomas Jefferson
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be.  - Thomas Jefferson
I recognize the sublime truth announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history that those nations only are blest whose God is the Lord.  - Abraham Lincoln
The sum of the whole matter is this, that our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.  It can be saved only by becoming permeated with the Spirit of Christ and being made free and happy of the practices which spring out of that spirit.  - Woodrow Wilson
I wish I were a fish in a way, 'Cause all they do is swim and play; No work to do, no bills to pay - But I had a trout for dinner today.  - Louis Caldwell
Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.  - Ulysses Grant
Leisure and I have parted company.  I am resolved to be busy till I die.  - John Wesley
Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can.  - John Wesley
A camel is a horse put together by a committee.
If you are ashamed to stand by your colors, seek another flag.
Gambling is robbery by mutual consent.  - C. M. Ward
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.  - Abraham Lincoln
Law without liberty is tyranny.  Liberty without law is license.  Liberty under law is freedom.  - William Penn
The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of power, not the increase of it.  When we resist, therefor, the concentration of power, we are resisting the process of death, because concentration of power is what always precedes the destruction of human liberties.  - Woodrow Wilson
A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the work "darkness" on the walls of his cell.  - C. S. Lewis
I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how he could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.  - Abraham Lincoln
The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it.  You have to catch up with it yourself.  - Benjamin Franklin
Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I myself have founded great empires ... But Jesus alone founded His empire upon love, and to this very day, millions would die for Him.  Jesus Christ was more than a man.  - Napoleon
It is just as illogical to suggest abolishing capitalism because it hasn't abolished poverty as it would be to suggest abolishing the churches because the churches haven't abolished sin.  - C. Dallas
You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.  - Abraham Lincoln
This is the only country (United States) where it take more brains to prepare the income tax return than it does to earn the income.  - William Dettle
What this county needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.  - Will Rogers
Many have quarreled about religion that never practiced it.  - Benjamin Franklin
We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.  - George Orwell
Today self-reliance is a sin; state-reliance is a virtue.  - Merril Root
The name of every saloon is bar,	the finest name by far;	A bar to heaven,
a door to hell,	Whoever named it, named it well.	A bar to manliness and a
bar to wealth,	A door to sorrow and broken health;	A bar to honor, pride and fame,	A door to sorrow, grief, and shame.	A bar to hopes, a bar to prayer,	A door to darkness and despair;	A bar to useful, many life,	A door to brawling, senseless strife.	A bar to heaven, a door to hell,	Whoever named it, named it well.	Written by a 25-year-old inmate in prison at Joliet, Illinois
In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.  - Teddy Roosevelt
Truth is violated by falsehood, but it is outraged by silence.  - Henri Ameil
It can hardly be argued either that students or teachers shed their constitutional rights ... at the schoolhouse gates.  - Abe Fortas
Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.  - Blaise Pascal
The child is not the mere creature of the State.  - James McReynolds
The right of privacy ... protects the right to choose alternative forms of education.  Perchemeides v. Frizzle.
You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.  You cannot help small men by weakening the strong.  You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.  You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich.  You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income.  You cannot further brotherhood of men by inciting class hatred.  You cannot establish security on borrowed money.  You cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiative and independence.  You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themelves.  - Abraham Lincoln
I was to learn in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing, and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, ineffciency, and demoralization.  - Petronius Arbiter 60 A.D.
WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.  - Ellie Katz
Hapiness is no laughing matter.  - Archbishop Whately of Dublin
I'm all for rational enjoyment, and so forth, but I think a fellow makes himself conspicuous when he throws softboiled eggs at the electric fan.  - P. Wodehouse
The experience to be gathered from books, though often valuable, is but of the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is of the nature of wisdom; and a small store of the latter is worth vastly more than a stock of the former. -Samuel Smiles, Self Help, 1859. 
It is astonishing what foolish things one can temporarily believe if one thinks too long alone.... - John Maynard Keynes, The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money, 1935. 
At base, mainstream economic theory rests on two observations: obvious opportunities for gain are rarely left unexploited, and things add up. (Or as I sometimes put it, $20 bills don't lie in plain view for very long, and every sale is also a purchase.) When one sets out to make a formal mathematical model, these rough principles usually become the more exact ideas of maximization (of something) and equilibrium (in some sense). It is, however, a good idea always to keep the looser statement in mind, for two opposing reasons to remind yourself not to take any particular mathematical formalization too seriously, but also to remind yourself that the basic principles of mainstream economics are not at all silly or unreasonable. - Paul Krugman, Development, Geography and Economic Theory, 1995.
The more I've thought about it over the years, the more I've concluded that what really leads to outstanding consultants, and I think then outstanding performance in almost anything you can think of, is the willingness to really take risks, take risks with your thinking, to take risks in how far you're trying to push the client, and not to be conservative and too cautious. I had a conversation with a colleague recently who was learning how to ski, and he said that, in the course of his ski week, he concluded that, if you weren't falling, you weren't learning, and I think that's, you know, a general rule of life. You've got to take risks and be willing to fail. Fred Gluck, Managing Director, McKinsey & Co 
I always thought there was at least one person in the stands who had never seen me play, and I didn't want to let him down. -Joe Dimaggio. 
Liberty for the wolves is death for the lambs. -Isaiah Berlin 
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. -T.S. Eliot 
The Government are very keen on amassing statistics- they collect them, add them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube root and prepare wonderful diagrams. But what you must never forget is that every one of those figures comes in the first instance from the village watchman, who just puts down what he damn pleases. -Josiah Stamp 
The art in economics is in judging when an assumption is clarifying and when it is misleading. -Greg Mankiw 
The children of light must be armed with the wisdom of the children of darkness, but remain free from their malice. They must know the power of self-interest in human society without giving it moral justification.  They must have this wisdom in order that they may beguile, deflect, harness, and restrain self-interest, individual and collective, for the sake of the community. -Reinhold Niebuhr 
If I am not for myself, who is for me? But if I am for my own self only, what am I, and if not now, when? - Rabbi Hillel. 
For an ethic is not an ethic, and a value not a value, without some sacrifice to it. Something given up, something not taken, something not gained. We do it in exchange for a greater good, for something worth more than just money and power and position. The great paradox of this philosophy is that in the end it brings one greater gain than any other philosophy. - Jerry Kohlberg 
1. Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. 2. Never use a long word where a short one will do.  3. If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.  4. Never use the passive voice where you can use the active.  5. Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.  6. Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.  - George Orwell 
Effective managers manage themselves and the people they work with so that both the organization and the people profit from their presence. People who feel good about themselves produce good results. Help people reach their full potential. Catch them doing something right. The best minute I spend is the one I invest in people. Feedback is the breakfast of champions. Everyone is a potential winner; Some people are disguised as losers; Don't let their appearances fool you. Take a minute: Look at your goals. Look at your performance. See if your performance matches your goals. If you are first tough on the behavior, and then supportive of the person, it works. We are not just our behavior, we are the person managing our behavior. Being honest with people eventually works. Goals begin behaviors. Consequences maintain behavior. - Blanchard And Johnson 
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains on their own appetites.  Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetitie be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there is without.  It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things that men of intemperate minds cannot be free.  Their passions forge their fetters.  - Edmund Burke
All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising of neglecting the precepts in the Bible.  - Noah Webster
Our Republican robe is soiled, and trailed in dust.  Let us repurify it.  Let us turn and wash it white, in the spirit, if not the blood, of the revolution...Let us readopt the Declaration of Independence and with it, the practices, and policy which harmonize with it.  - Abraham Lincoln
Ability is what you're capable of doing.  Motivation determines what you do.  Attitude determines how well you do it.  - Lou Holtz
Christianity is called a spiritual walk. It's not a run and it's not a jog. It's a walk you do from day to day and it makes you stable.  - Oral Hershiser
If you are not liberal when you are young - you don't have a heart; if you are not conservative when you are older - you don't have a brain.
They that would give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.  - Benjamin Franklin
A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be.  Moderation in temper is always a virtue, but moderation in principle is always a vice.  - Thomas Paine
Democracy is the worst political system.  Except for all the others.  - Winston Churchill
If you could buy hapiness - you would not be happy with the price.
Only one life t'will soon be past, only what's done for Christ will last.
You will miss 100% of the shots you never take.
Good flutists learn from experience; so do bad flutists.
The further backward you look, the further forward you will see.  Winston Churchill.
You come against me with sword and spear and javelin, but I come against you in the name of the Lord Almighty, the God of the armies of Israel whom you have defied.  This day the Lord will hand you over to me ... and the whole world will know that there is a God in Israel.  1 Samuel 17
The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.  Patrick Henry
It's not whether you win or loose, it how you place the blame :)
To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.  Theodore Roosevelt
A republic once equally posed must either preserve its virtue or lose its liberty.  John Witherspoon
He is the best friend of American liberty who is most sincere and active in promoting pure and undefiled religion.  John Witherspoon
If we are not governed by God, then we will be ruled by tyrants.  William Penn
And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutally pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our Sacred Honor.  Declaration of Independence
Unless I am convinced by the testimony of the Scriptures or by clear reason (for I do not trust either the pope or in councils alone, since it is well known that they have often erred and contradicted themselves), I am bound by the Scriptures I have quoted and my conscience is captive to the Word of God.  I cannot and I will not retract anything, since it is neither safe nor right to go against my conscience.  I cannot do otherwise.  Martin Luther
The finest edge is made with a blunt whetstone.  John Lyly
What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expect generally happens.  Benjamin Disraeli
Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can, At all the times you can, To all the poeple you can, As long as you ever can.  John Wesley.
No act of kindess, no matter how small, ever is wasted.  Aesop
Kindness is the oil that takes the friction out of life.
Be kind to one another.  Ephesians 4:32
Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning.  Henrietta Mears
I expect to pass through life but once.  If, therefore, there is any kindness I can show, or any good think I can do to any fellow human being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I will not pass this way again.  William Penn
Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire.
Stressed spelled backwards is desserts.
The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.  Thomas Jefferson
Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose goverments are afraid to trust the pepole with arms.  James Madison
To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always posses arms and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them.  Richard Henry Lee
The great object is that every man be armed.  Patrick Henry
Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.  Benjamin Franklin
It is better to have less thunder from the mouth and more lightning from the hands.  Apache proverb
We have ridiculed the absolute truth of Your Word and called it pluralism.  We have worshiped other gods and called it multiculturalism.  We have endorsed pervision and called it an alternative lifestyle.  We have exploited the poor and called it the lottery.  We have neglected the needy and called it self-preservation.  We have rewarded laziness and called it welfare.  We have killed our unborn children and called it choice.  We have shot abortionists and called it justifiable.  We have neglected to discipline our children and called it building self-esteem.  We have abused power and called it political savvy.  We have coveted our neighbor's possessions and called it ambition.  We have polluted the air with profanity and pronography and called it freedom of expression.  We have ridiculed the time-honored values of our forefathers and called it enlightenment.  
Experience is what you gain from being inexperienced.
Unless I am convinced by testimonies of the Scriptures or by clear arguments that I am in error - for popes and councils have often erred and contradicted themselves - I cannot withdraw for I am subject to the Scriptures I have quotes; my conscience is captive to the Word of God.  It is unsafe and dangerous to do anything against ones conscience.  Here I stand; I cannot do otherwise.  So help me God.  Martin Luter - Diet of Worms
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.  It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active.  The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consquence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt.  John Philpot Curran, 1790
He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.  Samuel Coleridge
It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.
Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal (Ed: usually).
A procrastinator suffers from hardening of the oughteries.
Sung to 3 Blind Mice:	Too much stuff, too much stuff, more than enough, more than enough. It's out of the closets and filling our space. It's growing and spilling all over the place. We're tripping all over a terrible case of too much stuff.	Too much stuff, too much stuff, more than enough, more than enough. The piles are staring us in the face. They multiply at an alarming pace. Soon we'll be buried without a trace in too much stuff.
The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.  Plato
In a world without fences, who needs Gates?
Good judgment comes from experience. Unfortunately, the experience usually comes from bad judgment.
Whenever the pillars of Christianity shall be overthrown, our present republican forms of government, and all the blessing which flow from them, must fall with them.  Jedidiah Morse
Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.  As nations become more corrupt, they have more need of masters.  Benjamin Franklin
It cannot be emphasized too strongly or to often that this great nation was founded not by religiionists,  but by Christians, not on religions, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  for this very reason people of other faiths have been afforded assylum, properity, and freedom of worship here.  Patrick Henry
A lot of kneeling will keep you in good standing.
He who kneels before God can stand before anyone!
To be almost saved is to be totally lost.
Ratio of an igloo's circumference to it diameter: Eskimo Pi
2000 pounds of Chinese soup: Won ton
Weight an evangelist carries with God: 1 billigram
If we do not go to the heathen with the Gospel, they will come to us as revolutionaries and occupation armies.  Brother Andrew
I am a fool for Christ.  Whose fool are you?  Brother Andrew
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil, is for good men to do nothing.  Edmund Burke
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.	We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. ... 	Preamble to the US Constitution
And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.   End of the Declaration of Independence
Proclaim liberty throughout the land and unto the inhabitants thereof.  Leviticus 25:10.  Written upon the Liberty Bell
We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of the government, far from it.  We have staked the future ... upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, according to the Ten Commandments of God.  James Madison 1778
A man who does not stand for something will fall for anything.
The same sun that melts the butter, hardens the brick.
We must hang together or we'll all hang separately.  Benjamin Franklin
You can never be too rich, too thin, or have too much RAM.
If there is no final place for civil disobedience, then the government has been made autonomous, and as such, it has been put in the place of the Living God.  Francis Schaeffer
A good boss makes his men realize they have more ability than they think they have so that they consistently do better work than they thought they could.  Charles E. Wilson 
Our duty as men is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.  Robert Louis Stevenson
A genius can't be forced; nor can you make an ape an alderman.  Thomas Somerville
A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.  Samuel Johnson
A pint can't hold a quart - if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.  Margaretta W. Deland
A traveller at Sparta, standing long upon one leg, said to a Lacedaemonian, "I do not believe you can do as much." "True," said he, "but every goose can." Plutarch
Ability doth hit the mark where presumption over-shooteth and diffidence falleth short.  Nicholas Cusa
Ability involves responsibility; power, to its last particle, is duty.  Ian McLaren
Ability is a poor man's wealth.  M. Wren
An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions. He is neither hot nor timid.  Earl of Chesterfield
As we advance in life, we learn the limit of our abilities.  Froude
Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and none can tell whose sphere is the largest.  Gail Hamilton
It is no disgrace not to be able to do everything; but to undertake or pretend to do what you are not made for, is not only shameful, but extremely troublesome and vexatious.  Plutarch
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.  Horace Walpole
Native ability without education is like a tree without fruit.  Aristippus
Natural abilities are like natural plants that need pruning by study.  Francis Bacon
Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.  Schopenhauer
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.  Cicero
No man's abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity, a patron, and even the praises of a friend to recommend them to the notice of the world.  Pliny
The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. - If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered.  Sir William Temple
The ablest men in all walks of modern life are men of faith. Most of them have much more faith than they themselves realize.  Bruce Barton
The art of being able to make a good use of moderate abilities wins esteem, and often confers more reputation than greater real merit.  Rochefoucauld
The force of his own merit makes his way - a gift that heaven gives for him.  Shakespeare
The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we live.  Rochefoucauld
The question "Who ought to be boss?" is like asking "Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?" Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.  Henry Ford
The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.  Gibbon
There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.  Elbert Hubbard 
There may be luck in getting a good job - but there's no luck in keeping it.  J. Ogden Armour
Ability To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.  Rochefoucauld 
We are often able because we think we are able.  J. Hawes
We should be on our guard against the temptation to argue directly from skill to capacity, and to assume when a man displays skill in some feat, his capacity is therefore considerable.  Tom H. Pear
Who does the best his circumstance allows, does well, acts nobly, angels could no more.  Young
Without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.  Quintilian 
No man made great by death offers more hope to lowly pride than does Abraham Lincoln; for while living he was himself so simple as often to be dubbed a fool. Foolish he was, they said, in losing his youthful heart to a grave and living his life on married patience; foolish in pitting his homely ignorance against Douglas, brilliant, courtly, and urbane; foolish in setting himself to do the right in a world where the day goes mostly to the strong; foolish in dreaming of freedom for a long-suffering folk whom the North is as anxious to keep out as the South was to keep down; foolish in choosing the silent Grant to lead to victory the hesitant armies of the North; foolish, finally, in presuming that government for the people must be government of the people and by the people.	Foolish many said; foolish many, many believed.	This Lincoln, whom so many living friends and foes alike deemed foolish, hid his bitterness in laughter; fed his sympathy on solitude; and met recurring disaster with whimsicality to muffle the murmur of a bleeding heart. Out of the tragic sense of life he pitied where others blamed; bowed his own shoulders with the woes of the weak; endured humanely his little day of chance power; and won through death what life disdains to bestow upon such simple souls - lasting peace and everlasting glory.	How prudently - to echo Wendell Phillips - we proud men compete for nameless graves, while now and then some starveling of Fate forgets himself into immortality.  Thomas Vernor Smith,
Not often in the story of mankind does a man arrive on earth who is both steel and velvet, who is as hard as rock and soft as drifting fog, who holds in his heart and mind the paradox of terrible storm and peace unspeakable and perfect.  Carl Sandburg,
Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind will blow out a candle, and blow in a fire.  Duc de la Rochefoucauld
Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.  Shakespeare
Absence in love is like water upon fire; a little quickens, but much extinguishes it.  Hannah More
Absence, like death, sets a seal on the image of those we love: we cannot realize the intervening changes which time may have effected.  Goldsmith
Distance of time and place funereally cure what they seem to aggravate; and taking leave of our friends resembles taking leave of the world, of which it has been said that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.  Fielding
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.  Dryden
Short absence quickens love; long absence kills it.  Mirabeau
The absent are like children, helpless to defend themselves.  Charles Reade
The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuses.  Benjamin Franklin
The joy of meeting pays the pangs of absence; else who could bear it? Rowe
Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtle, and daughters sometimes run off with the butler.  Byron
Abstinence is whereby a man refraineth from anything which he may lawfully claim.  Eliot
Against diseases the strongest fence is the defensive virtue, abstinence.  Herrick
Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one.  Penn
It is continued temperance which sustains the body for the longest period of time, and which most surely preserves it free from sickness.  Karl W. Humboldt
Refrain tonight, and that shall lend a hand of easiness to the next abstinence; the next more easy; for use can almost change the stamp of nature, and either curb the devil, or throw him out with wondrous potency.  Shakespeare
The stomach begs and clamors, and listens to no precepts. And yet it is not an obdurate creditor; for it is dismissed with small payment if you give it only what you owe, and not as much as you can.  Seneca
The whole duty of man is embraced in the two principles of abstinence and patience: temperance in prosperity, and patient courage in adversity Seneca
To set the mind above the appetites is the end of abstinence, which if not a virtue, is the groundwork of a virtue.  Johnson
The absurd is only too necessary on earth. The world stands on absurdities.  Fyodor Dostoyevski (1821-1881) The Brothers Karamazov (1880)
The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject but man only.  Thomas Hobbes Leviathan, I, 5
There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. Fontenelle says he would undertake to persuade the whole public of readers to believe that the sun was neither the cause of light or heat, if he could only get six philosophers on his side.  Goldsmith
To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we condemn in others, is neither better nor worse than to be more willing to be fools ourselves than to have others so.  Pope
Abuse is often of service. There is nothing so dangerous to an author as silence. His name, like the shuttlecock, must be beat backward and forward, or it falls to the ground.  Johnson
Abuse me as much as you will; it is often a benefit rather than an injury.  E. Nott
Abuse of any one generally shows that he has marked traits of character. The stupid and indifferent are passed by in silence.  Tyron Edwards
Cato, being scurrilously treated by a low and vicious fellow, quietly said to him, "A contest between us is very unequal, for thou canst bear ill language with ease, and return it with pleasure; but to me it is unusual to hear, and disagreeable to speak it." There are none more abusive to others than they that lie most open to it themselves; but the humor goes round, and he that laughs at me today will have somebody to laugh at him tomorrow.  Seneca
I never yet heard man or woman much abused that I was not inclined to think the better of them, and to transfer the suspicion or dislike to the one who found pleasure in pointing out the defects of another.  Jane Porter
It is not he who gives abuse that affronts, but the view that we take of it as insulting; so that when one provokes you it is your own opinion which is provoking.  Epictetus
It is the policy of sin to hate those we have abused.  Davenant
The difference between coarse and refined abuse is the difference between being bruised by a club and wounded by a poisoned arrow.  Johnson
The greater the powers, the more dangerous the abuse.  Edmund Burke Speech, Middlesex election, 1771.
When certain persons abuse us let us ask what kind of characters it is they admire. We shall often find this a most consolatory question.  Colton
At the bottom of the modern man there is always a great thirst for self-forgetfulness, self-distraction and therefore he turns away from all those problems and abysses which might recall to him his own nothingness.  Henri Frederic Amiel
How many people eat, drink, and get married; buy, sell, and build; make contracts and attend to their fortune; have friends and enemies, pleasures and pains, are born, grow up, live and die - but asleep! Joseph Joubert
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live! Henry David Thoreau
I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.  Michel de Montaigne
O wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as others see us.
Only the shallow know themselves.  Oscar Wilde
There are many people who have the gift, or failing, of never understanding themselves. I have been unlucky enough, or perhaps fortunate enough to have received the opposite gift.  Charles de Talleyrand
Nothing is or can be accidental with God.  Longfellow
What men call accident is the doing of God's providence.  Gamaliel Bailey
What reason, like the careful ant, draws laboriously together, the wind of accident sometimes collects in a moment.  Schiller
A man can do more than he thinks he can, but usually less than he thinks he does.  Author Unknown
Accomplishment is easiest when we work the hardest, and it is hardest when we work the easiest.  Author Unknown
All great things are only a number of small things that have carefully been collected together.  Author Unknown
An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.  Pliny the Younger
Do not think that what is hard for thee to master is impossible for man; but if a thing is possible and proper to man, deem it attainable by thee.  Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Nothing can be made of nothing; he who has laid up no material can produce no combinations.  Sir Joshua Reynolds
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.  Walter Bagehot
What you cannot as you would achieve, You must perforce accomplish as you may.  William Shakespeare
If you add only a little to a little and do this often, soon that little will become great.  Hesiod
Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.  C. Simmons
Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.  Tyron Edwards
Practice yourself, for heaven's sake, in little things; and thence proceed to greater.  Epictetus
God is dead. Neitske	Neitske is dead. God
Many men worship their work, work at their play, and play at their worship.
The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.  Epicurus
Whoever tries for great objects must suffer something.  Plutarch
You'll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burro.  Martial [Marcus Valerius Martialis] Epigrams, XII, 36
I love the acquaintance of young people, because, in the first place, I don't like to think myself growing old. In the next place, young acquaintances must last longest, if they do last; and then young men have more generous sentiments in every respect.  Johnson
If a man is worth knowing at all, he is worth knowing well.  Alexander Smith
It is expedient to have acquaintance with those who have looked into the world, who know men, understand business, and can give you good intelligence and good advice when they are wanted.  George Horne
It is good discretion not make too much of any man at the first; because one cannot hold out that proportion.  Bacon
Never say you know a man till you have divided an inheritance with him.  Lavater
Three days of uninterrupted company in a vehicle will make you better acquainted with another, than one hour's conversation with him every day for three years.  Lavater
An unjust acquisition is like a barbed arrow, which must be drawn backward with horrible anguish, or else will be your destruction.  Jeremy Taylor
Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other.  Metastasio
That which we acquire with most difficulty we retain the longest; as those who have earned a fortune are commonly more careful of it than those by whom it may have been inherited.  Colton
When our actions do not, Our fears do make us traitors.  William Shakespeare Macbeth, IV, ii, 3
A committee of one gets things done.  Joe Ryan
A good action is never lost, it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.  Pedro Calderon
A good deed is never lost. He who sows courtesy, reaps friendship; he who plants kindness, gathers love; pleasure bestowed upon a grateful mind was never sterile, but generally gratitude begets reward.  Basil
A holy act strengthens the inward holiness.  F. W. Robertson
A horse can't pull while kicking,	This fact I merely mention;	And he can't kick while pulling,	Which is my chief contention.	Let's imitate the good old horse	And lead a life that's fitting.	Just pull an honest load and then	There'll be no time for kicking.  Author Unknown
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.  Lao Tse
A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action. It is as if a tennis player before returning a ball stopped to think about his views of the physical and mental advantages of tennis. You must act as you breathe.  Georges Clemenceau
A right act strikes a chord that extends through the whole universe, touches all moral intelligence, visits every world, vibrates along its whole extent, and conveys its vibrations to the very bosom of God! T. Binney
A rolling stone gathers no moss.  Publilius Syrus
Action is eloquence; the eyers of the ignorant are more learned than their ears.  Shakespeare
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.  Disraeli
Actions are ours; their consequences being to heaven.  Sir P. Francis
Actions speak louder than words.  Author Unknown
Active natures are rarely melancholy. - Active and sadness are incompatible.  Bovee
Activity is God's medicine; the highest genius is willingness and ability to do hard work. Any other conception of genius makes is a doubtful, if not a dangerous possession.  R. S. MacArthur
All our actions take their hue from the complexion of the heart, as landscapes do their variety from light.  W. T. Bacon
All people have a moral obligation to act intelligently to cultivate a higher devotion to truth.  Author Unknown
All that is required for the triumph of tyranny is for enough men to do nothing.  Edmund Burke
All the means of action the shapeless masses the materials lie everywhere about us; what we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into transparent crystal, bright and clear.  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
And, he gave it for his Opinion; that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before; would deserve better of Mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.  Jonathan Swift, "A Voyage to Brobdingnag," Gulliver's travels, part 2, pp. 119-20,
Attack is the reaction; I never think I have hit hard unless it rebounds.  Dr. Samuel Johnson
Babe Ruth had 714 home runs, but struck out 1330 times.  Author Unknown
Bad luck is in nine cases out of ten, the result of putting pleasure first and duty second, instead of duty first and pleasure second.  J. J. Munger
Be great in act, as you have been in thought. - Suit the action to the word and the word to the action.  Shakespeare
Be not the first by whom the new are tried, nor yet the last to lay the old aside.  Alexander Pope
Be twice as much in half the time.  Author Unknown
Bullfight critics row on row	Crowd the vast arena full	But only one man's there who knows	And he's the man who fights the bull.  Author unknown.
Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.  Colton
Do not let your deeds belie your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, "Why do you not practice what you preach?" St. Jerome Letter, 48
Do your best every minute - you never know when someone is taking your measure for a better position.  Author Unknown
Doing is the great thing. For if, resolutely, people do what is right, in time they come to like doing it.  Ruskin
Don't be too critical of a mistake. It is evidence that at least somebody tried to do something.  Author Unknown
Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.  E. H. Chapin
Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it.  Sir Isaac Newton
Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.  James Russell Lowell
Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.  Goethe
Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deeds we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel.  E. L. Magoon
Good thoughts, though God accept them, yet toward men are little better than good dreams except they be put in action.  Bacon
Great actions are not always true sons	Of great and mighty resolutions.  Samuel Butler
Great actions, the lustre of which dazzles us, are represented by politicians as the effects of deep design; whereas they are commonly the effects of caprice and passion. Thus the war between Augustus and Antony, supposed to be owing to their ambition to give a master to the world, arose probably from jealousy.  Rochefoucauld
He does it with a better grace, but I do it more natural.  William Shakespeare
He that governeth himself is greater than he that taketh a city.  Author Unknown
He who is firm and resolute in will molds the world to himself.  Goethe
Heaven never helps the man who will not act.  Sophocles
Hindsight is an exact science.  Guy Bellamy
How did a fool and his money get together in the first place? Kearney, Nebraska Hub
I abhor those cold calculating people who in order to say no wrong, say nothing at all. And cold people who in order to do no wrong, do nothing at all.  Henry Ward Beecher
I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. What I can do, I ought to do, and what I ought to do, by the Grace of God, I will do.  Author Unknown
I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.  G. K. Chesterton
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.  Oliver Wendell Holmes
I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a great deal about their acts.  Horace Mann
I will not steep my speech in lies; the test of any man lies in action.  Pindar
If at first you don't succeed, you're running about average. DON'T QUIT.  Author Unknown
If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life - if you can not look back to those to whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty: for your active exertions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to serve yourself and others.  Walter Scott
If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.  Author Unknown
In activity we must find our joy as well as glory; and labor, like everything else that is good, is its own reward.  E. P. Whipple
In all exigencies or miseries, lamentation becomes fools, and action wise folk.  Sir P. Sidney
In Germany, they first came for the Communists, but I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, but I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionist, but I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, but I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Catholic. Then they came for the Protestants, but I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up.  Fritz Moller
In this world a man must be either anvil or hammer.  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.  Leonardo da Vinci
It doesn't do any good to sit up and take notice if you just keep sitting.  Author Unknown
It is better to wear out than rust out.  Richard Cumberland
It is circumstance and proper timing that give an action its character and make it either good or bad.  Agesilaus
It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.  Author Unknown
It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.  Senator Robert F. Kennedy
It is impossible to come back from a place you've never been. It's also impossible to jump across a chasm in two jumps.  Author Unknown
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.  Theodore Roosevelt
It is not what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.  Jean-Baptiste Moli'e
It is vain to expect any advantage from our profession of the truth if we be not sincerely just and honest in our actions.  Sharpe
It isn't so much what happens to us that matters but what we do about it.  Author Unknown
It may make a difference for all eternity whether we do right or wrong today.  James Freeman Clarke
Judge a man by what he finishes, not by what he begins.  Author Unknown
Lay up your treasures in heaven where there is no depreciation.  Author Unknown
Let not the fruit of action be thy motive,	Nor be thy attachment to inaction.  Bhagavad Gita
Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.  Representative Daniel Webster, address at the laying of the cornerstone of the Bunker Hill Monument
Life though a short, is a working day. Activity may lead to evil; but inactivity cannot be led to good.  Hannah More
Life was not given for indolent contemplation and study of self, nor for brooding over emotions of piety: actions and actions only determine the worth.  Fichte
Life, in all ranks and situations, is an outward occupation, an actual and active work.  Karl W. Humboldt
Little strokes fell great oaks.  Benjamin Franklin
Look round the habitable world, how few	Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue! Benjamin Franklin
Many men build as cathedrals were built, the part nearest the ground finished; but the parts which soar toward heaven, the turrets and spires, forever incomplete.  Henry Ward Beecher
Men commonly think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and imbibed opinions, but generally according to custom.  Francis Bacon
Never leave that till to-morrow which you can do to-day.  Benjamin Franklin
No sooner said than done - so acts your man of worth.  Quintus Ennius
Nothing ever happens but once in this world. What I do now I do once for all. It is over and gone, with all its eternity of solemn meaning.  Carlyle
Nothing, says Goethe, is so terrible as activity without insight. - Look before you leap is a maxim for the world.  E. P. Whipple
O Lord, point me right for thou knowest if I get started moving wrong, thou thyself could not change me.  Scottish Prayer
One man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind if he first forms a good plan and, cutting off all amusements or other employments that would divert his attention, makes the execution of that same plan his sole study and business.  Benjamin Franklin
One may know the world without going out of doors.	  The further one goes, the less one knows.
One must not always think so much about what one should do, but rather what one should be. Our works do not ennoble us; but we must ennoble our works.  Meister Eckhart
One today is worth two tomorrows; Have you something to do tomorrow, do it today.  Benjamin Franklin
Only a mediocre person is always at his best.  W. Somerset Maugham
Only actions give to life its strength, as only moderation gives it its charm.  Richter
Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.  Shirley
Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.  Carlyle
Remember you have not a sinew whose law of strength is not action; not a faculty of body, mind or soul, whose law of improvement is not energy.  E. B. Hall
Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.  Jonathan Edwards
Some gardeners flail recklessly at the weeds' offending shoots, while others dig at its roots.  Lynn Pearson
Speech is the image of actions.  Solon
That action is not warrantable which either fears to ask the divine blessing on its performance, or having succeeded, does not come with thanksgiving to God for its success.  Quarles
The actions of men are like the index of a book; they point out what is most remarkable in them.  Happiness is in action, and every power is intended for action; human happiness, therefore, can only be complete as all the powers have their full and legitimate play.  David Thomas
The cautious seldom err.  Confucius
The firefly only shines when on the wing; so it is with the mind; when we rest we darken.  Gamaliel Bailey
The flighty purpose never is o'ertook unless the deed go with it.  Shakespeare
The Golden Rule is of no use whatever unless you realize it's your move.  Quoted by Leo Aikman
The man who has done his best has done everything. The man who has done less than his best has done nothing.  Author Unknown
The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.  Hazlitt
The point I wish to make is this: [President William] McKinley gave Rowan a letter to be delivered to Garcia; Rowan took the letter & did not ask, "Where is he at?" By the Eternal! there is a man whose form should be cast in deathless bronze & the statue placed in every college of the land. It is not book-learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebrae which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act promptly, concentrate their energies: do the thing - "Carry a message to Garcia!" Elbert Hubbard
The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.  Maimonides
The turtle never gets started until he sticks his neck out.  Author Unknown
The world is blessed most by men who do things, and not by those who merely talk about them.  James Oliver
The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit. Try if you can, to belong to the first class. There's far less competition.  Dwight Morrow
There is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.  Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds it.  Author Unknown
There is nothing so fatal to character as half-finished tasks.  David Lloyd George
Think that day lost whose slow descending sun views from thy hand no noble action done.  J. Bobart
This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.  Charles Dickens
Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.  Wordsworth
Thus in the highest position there is the least freedom of action.  Sallust 
To be both a speaker of words and a doer of deeds.  Homer
To do an evil act is base. To do a good one without incurring danger, is common enough. But it is the part of a good man to do great and noble deeds though he risks everything in doing them.  Plutarch
To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction: or, the mutual action of two bodies upon each other are always equal, and directed to contrary parts.  Sir Isaac Newton
To will and not to do when there is opportunity, is in reality not to will; and to love what is good and not to do it, when it is possible, is in reality not to love it.  Swedenborg
Unless a decision has degenerated into work, it is not a decision at all, it is an intention.  Peter F. Drucker
Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls.  David Thomas
We are face to face with our destiny and we must meet it with a high and resolute courage. For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.  Theodore Roosevelt
We must be doing something to be happy. - Action is no less necessary to us than thought.  Hazlitt
We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.  Cicero
Well begun is half done.  Aristotle
What e'er thou art, act well thy part.  William Shakespeare
What man knows should find expression in what he does. - The chief value of superior knowledge is that it leads to a performing manhood.  Bovee
When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.  Georges Clemenceau
When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing, he has one good reason for leaving it alone.  Thomas Scott
When you can think of yesterday without regret and of tomorrow without fear, you are on the road to success.  Author Unknown
With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own.  President John F. Kennedy, inaugural address
You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit.  Demosthenes
A man who never made a mistake, never made anything worth a darn.  Author Unknown
A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.  James A. Garfield
A thousand words leave not the same deep impression as does a single deed.  Henrik Ibsen
Before water generates steam, it must register 212 of heat; 200 will not do it. The water must boil to generate enough steam to move an engine. Lukewarm water will not run anything. Lukewarmness will not generate life's work.  Author Unknown
Better that we should err in action than wholly refuse to perform. The storm is so much better than the calm, as it declares the presence of a living principle. Stagnation is something worse than death. It is corruption also.  William Gilmore Sims
Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.  Abraham Lincoln
Do all the good you can, in all the ways you can, to all the souls you can, in every place you can, at all the times you can, with all the zeal you can, as long as ever you can.  John Wesley
Every kind and good deed is a press agent for God.  Author Unknown
Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never so little scar. Nothing we ever do is in strict scientific literalness wiped out.  William James
Everywhere in life the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.  Thomas Carlyle
Great minds, like heaven, are pleased in doing good, though the ungrateful subjects of their favors are barren in return.  Rowe
He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner.  Hesiod
He that does good for good's sake seeks neither praise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.  William Penn
He who wants to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything. Life is made up of little things. It is very rarely that an occasion is offered for doing a great deal at once. True greatness consists in being great in little things.  Charles Simmons
I have been wretched all of my life because I have yearned to be honorable while I have continued to do unworthy things.  Dmitri Karamazov
I prefer to do right and get no thanks than to do wrong and receive no punishment.  Cato
If it is not right, do not do it; if is is not true, do not say it.  Marcus Aurelius
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.  Henry David Thoreau
It doesn't take long for the man with push to pass the man with pull.  Author Unknown
It is better to have less thunder in the mouth and more lightning in the hand.  Cheyenne Chief
Many men take the wrong step by standing still.  Author Unknown
Measure men not by Sunday without regarding what they may do all the week after.  Author Unknown
Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.  Author Unknown
Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.  Hesiod
People can be divided into three classes, the few who make things happen, the many who watch things happen, and the overwhelming majority who have no idea what has happened.  Author Unknown
Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side, My great concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.  Abraham Lincoln
The actions of men are the best interpreters of thought.  Author Unknown
The end must justify the means.  Matthew Prior
This is very true: for my words are my own, and my actions are my ministers'.  Charles II
Vicious actions are not hurtful because they are forbidden, but forbidden because they are hurtful.  Benjamin Franklin
We are very apt to measure ourselves by our aspiration instead of our performance. But in truth the conduct of our lives is the only proof of the sincerity of our hearts.  Author Unknown
We can sometimes be fully conscious of the folly of a decision and yet at the very moment be knowingly proceeding to carry it out. Robert J. McCracken
We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.  Author Unknown
We live in deeds; not years; in thoughts; not breaths; in feelings not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives who thinks most; feels the noblest; acts the best.  Philip J. Bailey
When you deplore the conditions in the world, ask yourself, 'Am I part of the problem or part of the solution? Author Unknown
You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.  Author Unknown
A young girl must not be taken to the theatre, let us say it once for all. It is not only the drama which is immoral, but the place.  Alex Dumas
Actors are the only honest hypocrites. Their life is a voluntary dream; and the height of their ambition is to be beside themselves. They wear the livery of other men's fortunes: their very thoughts are not their own.  Hazlitt
An actor should take lessons from the painter and the sculptor. Not only should he make attitude his study, but he should highly develop his mind by an assiduous study of the best writers, ancient and modern, which will enable him not only to understand his parts, but to communicate a nobler coloring to his manners and mien.  Goethe
It is with some violence to the imagination that we conceive of an actor belonging to the relations of private life, so closely do we identify these persons in our mind with the characters they assume upon the stage.  Lamb
The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.  Cervantes
The profession of the player, like that of the painter, is one of the imitative arts, whose means are pleasure, and whose end should be virtue.  Shenstone
Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action to all eternity.  Johann Kaspar Lavater
And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.  Marcus Aurelius
By annihilating desires you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.  Claude Adrien Helvetius
Mistrust first impulses, they are always good.  Charles de Talleyrand
To do nothing is in every man's power.  Samuel Johnson
The genius of America is in its ability to make adjustments. That was the condition of conquering a virgin continent. We are adaptable, and because we are adaptable, we are strong.  David E. Lilienthal
We get our economic services in the way that at the time seems to work best. We do not start with all the economic or political answers. We make up the answers as we go along. The fact is that we have hardly an ounce of economic dogmatism in us.  David E. Lilienthal
A man who knows the world will not only make the most of everything he does know; but of many things he does not know; and will gain more credit by his adroit mode of hiding his ignorance, than the pedant by his awkward attempt to exhibit his erudition.  Colton
Address makes opportunities; the want of it gives them.  Bovee
The tear that is wiped with a little address may be followed, perhaps, by a smile.  Cowper
There is a certain artificial polish and address acquired by mingling in the beau monde, which, in the commerce of the world, supplies the place of natural suavity and good humor; but it is too often purchased at the expense of all original and sterling traits of character.  Washington Irving
Admiration is a very short-lived passion that decays on growing familiar with its object unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries and kept alive by perpetual miracles rising up to its view.  Addison
Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.  Benjamin Franklin
Admiration must be kept up by the novelty that at first produce it; and how much soever is given, there must always be the impression that more remains.  Johnson
Few men are admired by their servants.  Montaigne
Few men have been admired by their own domestics.  Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
I'd never try to learn from someone I didn't envy at least a little. If I never envied, I'd never learn.  Betsy Cohen
It is a good thing to believe; it is a good thing to admire. By continually looking upwards, our minds will themselves grow upwards; as a man, by indulging in habits of scorn and contempt for others, is sure to descend to the level of these he despises.	It is better in some respects to be admired by those with whom you live, than to be loved by them. And this is not on account of any gratification of vanity, but because admiration is so much more tolerant than love.	Sir Arthur Helps
No nobler feeling than this, of admiration for one higher than himself, dwells in the breast of man. - It is to this hour, and at all hours, the vivifying influence in man's life.  Carlyle
There is a pleasure in admiration; and this it is which properly causeth admiration, when we discover a great deal in an object which we understand to be excellent; and yet we see more beyond that, which our understandings cannot fully reach and comprehend.  Tillotson
There is a wide difference between admiration and love. The sublime, which is the cause of the former, always dwells on great objects and terrible; the latter on small ones and pleasing; we submit to what we admire, but we love what submits to us: in one case we are forced, in the other we are flattered, into compliance.  Burke
Those who are formed to win general admiration are seldom calculated to bestow individual happiness.  Lady Blessington
To cultivate sympathy you must be among living beings and thinking about them; to cultivate admiration, among beautiful things and looking at them.  Ruskin
We always like those who admire us, but we do not always like those whom we admire.  Rochefoucauld
Adolescence is perhaps nature's way of preparing parents for the empty nest.  Karen Savage and Patricia Adams
For many, life's longest mile is the stretch from dependence to independence.  Carla B. James
You don't have to be suffer to be a poet. Adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.  John Ciardi
A man practices the art of adventure when he heroically faces up to life.  WHEN he says like Frank Crane:"My soul is a Columbus; and not watery wastes, nor glooming mysteries shall send me back, nor make me cry 'Enough'!" WHEN he has the daring to open doors to new experiences and to step boldly forth to explore strange horizons.  WHEN he is unafraid of new ideas, new theories and new philosophies.  WHEN he has the curiosity to experiment to test and try new ways of living and thinking.  WHEN he has the flexibility to adjust and adapt himself to the changing patterns of life.  WHEN he refuses to seek safe places and easy tasks and has, instead, the courage to wrestle with the toughest problems and difficulties.  WHEN he has the moral stamina to be steadfast in the support of those men in whom he has faith and those causes in which he believes.  WHEN he breaks the chains of routine and renews his life through reading new books, traveling to new places, making new friends, taking up new hobbies and adopting new viewpoints.  WHEN he has the nerve to move out of life's shallows and venture forth into the deep.  WHEN he keeps his heart young, his expectations high and never allows his dreams to die.  WHEN he concludes that a rut is only another name for a grave and that the only way to stay out of the ruts is by living adventurously and staying vitally alive every day of his life.	Wilfred A. Peterson
Adventures are an indication of inefficiency. Good explorers don't have them.  Herbert Spencer Dickey
Westward the course of empire takes its way.  George Berkeley
A dose of adversity is often as needful as a dose of medicine.  B. C. Forbes
A high character might be produced, I suppose, by continued prosperity, but it has very seldom been the case. Adversity, however it may appear to be our foe, is our true friend, and, after a little acquaintance with it, we receive it as a precious thing - the prophecy of a coming joy. It should be no ambition of ours to traverse a path without a thorn or stone.  Charles H. Spurgeon
A noble heart, like the sun, showeth its greatest countenance in its lowest estate.  Sir P. Sidney
A smooth sea never made a skilful mariner, neither do uninterrupted prosperity and success qualify for usefulness and happiness. The storms of adversity, like those of the ocean, rouse the faculties, and excite the invention, prudence, skill, and fortitude in the voyager. The martyrs of ancient times, in bracing their minds to outward calamities, acquired a loftiness of purpose and a moral heroism worth a lifetime of softness and security.  Anonymous
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner; neither do uninterrupted prosperity and success qualify for usefulness and happiness. The storms of adversity; like those of the ocean; rouse the faculties; and excite the invention; prudence..of the voyager.  Author Unknown
Ad astra per aspera.  To the stars through hardships.  Anonymous Latin Motto of Kansas
Adversity exasperates fools, dejects cowards, draws out the faculties of the wise and industrious, puts the modest to the necessity of trying their skill, awes the opulent, and makes the idle industrious.  Anonymous
Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, then especially, being free from flatterers.  Johnson
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.  Horace
Adversity is a severe instructor, set over us by one who knows us better than we do ourselves, as he loves us better too. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This conflict with difficulty makes us acquainted with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial.  Burke
Adversity is like the period of the former and of the latter rain - cold, comfortless, unfriendly to man and to animal; yet from that reason have their birth the flower and the fruit, the date, the rose, and the pomegranate.  Walter Scott
Adversity is necessary to the development of man's virtue.  Wisdom of the Chinese
Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.  Leighton
Adversity, like winger weather, is of use to kill those vermin which the summer of prosperity is apt to produce and nourish.  Arrowsmith
Adversity, sage useful guest, severe instructor, but the best; it is from thee alone we know justly to value things below.  Somerville
Affliction is a sort of moral gymnasium in which the disciples of Christ are trained to robust exercise; hardy exertion; and severe conflict.  Hannah More
Alas, how scant the sheaves for all the trouble, the toil, the pain and the resolve sublime - a few full ears; the rest but weeds and stubble, and withered wild flowers plucked before their time.  A. B. Bragdon
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.  Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity; a state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quicksand to virtue.  Schiller
God kills thy comforts to kill thy corruptions; wants are ordained to kill wantonness; poverty to kill pride; reproaches to destroy ambition.  Flavel
God lays his cross upon those whom he loves, and those who bear it patiently gain much wisdom.  Luther
Good fortune will elevate even petty minds, and give them the appearance of a certain greatness and stateliness, as from their high place they look down upon the world; but the truly noble and resolved spirit raises itself, and becomes more conspicious in times of disaster and ill fortune.  Plutarch
Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.  Sophocles
He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be defected by the former is not likely to be transported with the latter.  Fielding
He that has never known adversity, is but half acquainted with others, or with himself. Constant success shows us but one side of the world; for as it surrounds us with friends, who tell us only our merits, so it silences those enemies from whom only we can learn our defects.  Colton
He that has no cross will have no crown.  Quarles
Heaven often smites in mercy, even when the blow is severest.  Joanna Baillie
How blunt are all the arrows of adversity in comparison with those of guilt! Blair
I never met with a single instance of adversity which I have not in the end seen was for my good. - I have never heard of a Christian on his deathbed complaining of his afflictions.  A. Proudfit
If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.  Author Unknown
In adversity remember to keep an even mind.  Horace [Quintas Horatius Flaccus]
In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.  Rochefoucauld
In this wild world the fondest and the best are the most tried, most troubled, and distrest.  Crabbe
Iron till it be thoroughly heated is uncapable of being wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on his anvil into what frame he pleases.  Anne Bradstreet
It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible.  Henry Ward Beecher
It is difficulties that show what men are.  Epictetus
It is good for man to suffer the adversity of this earthly life: for it brings him back to the sacred retirement of the heart, where only he finds he is an exile from his native home, and ought not to place his trust in any worldly enjoyment.  Thomas A. Kempis
It is not the so-called blessings of life, its sunshine and calm and pleasant experiences that make men, but its rugged experiences, its storms and tempests and trials. Early adversity is often a blessing in disguise.  W. Mathews
It is trial that proves one thing weak and another strong. A house built on the sand is in fair weather just as good as if built on a rock. A cobweb is as good as the mightiest cable when there is no strain upon it.  Henry Ward Beecher
It's a different song when everything's wrong, when you're feeling infernally mortal; when it's ten against one, and hope there is none, buck up, little soldier, and chortle! Robert W. Service
Keep your face to the sunshine and all the shadows will fall behind you.  Helen Keller
Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to tremendous difficulties.  Charles H. Spurgeon
Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.  James Russell Lowell
No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.  Ellen Glasgow
No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.  Anonymous
Once there lived an old woman who was always so cheerful that everyone wondered at her: 'But you must have some clouds in your life;' said a visitor. 'Clouds?' she replied; 'why; of course; if there were no clouds; where would the blessed showers come from.  Sunshine Magazine
Prosperity has this property: It puffs up narrow souls, makes them imagine themselves high and mighty, and leads them to look down upon the world with contempt; but a truly noble spirit appears greatest in distress; and then becomes more bright and conspicuous.  Plutarch
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.  Hazlitt
Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.  Plutarch
Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.  Francis Bacon
Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction and the clearer revelation of god's favor. Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.  Bacon
Prosperity is too apt to prevent us from examining our conduct; but adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.  Johnson
So your fiery trial is still unextinguished. But what if it be but His beacon light on your upward path? F. R. Havergal
Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the top of a mountain. So are many things learned in adversity which the prosperous man dreams not of.  Spurgeon
Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head; And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in every thing.  William Shakespeare
Sweet are the uses of adversity; Which; like the toad; ugly and venomous; Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.  William Shakespeare
That person who cannot bear chastening cuts himself off from the blessings of Heaven.  Ophelia Kennedy
The best rosebush after all, is not that which has the fewest thorns, but that which bears the finest roses.  Henry Van Dyke
The brightest crowns that are worn in heaven have been tried, and smelted, and polished, and glorified through the furnace of tribulation.  E. H. Chapin
The flower that follows the sun does so even in cloudy days.  Leighton
The Gods in bounty work up storms about us, that give mankind occasion to exert their hidden strength, and throw our into practice virtues that shun the day, and lie concealed in the smooth seasons and the calms of life.  Addison
The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.  Seneca
The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after we are in.  John H. Moore
The sharpest sting of adversity it borrows from our own impatience.  Bp. Horne
The truly great and good, in affliction, bear a countenance more princely than they are wont; for it is the temper of the highest hearts, like the palm tree, to strive most upwards when it is most burdened.  Sir P. Sidney
The way to bliss lies not on beds of down, And he that has no cross deserves no crown.	Francis Quarles
The wisdom of God appears in afflictions. By these He separates the sin which He hates from the son whom He loves. By these thorns He keeps him from breaking over into Satan's pleasant pastures; but only from the slaughter.  Aughey
There are nuggets of gold in Moses that would never have been found had he remained in Pharaoh's palace. It took forty years of roughing it to bring them to the surface.  E. P. Brown
There is no education like adversity.  Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1804-1881)
There will be no crown bearers in heaven who are not cross bearers on earth.  Author Unknown
Those who have suffered much are like those who know many languages; they have learned to understand and be understood by all.  Madame Swetchine
Thou are never at any time nearer to God than when under tribulation; which he permits for the purifications and beautifying of thy soul.  Molinos
Though losses and crosses be lessons right severe, there's wit there ye'll get there, ye'll find no other where.  Burns
To bear pain without letting it spoil your happiness is true valor.  Author Unknown
Too much sun makes a desert.  Arabian Proverb
Trials, temptations, disappointments - all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fibre of character but strengthen it. Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.  James Buckham
Triumphs without difficulties are empty. Indeed; it is difficulties that make the triumph. It is no feat to travel the smooth road.  Author Unknown
We ought as much to pray for a blessing upon our daily rod as upon our daily bread.  John Owen
Wherever souls are being tried and ripened, in whatever commonplace and homely ways, there God is hewing out the pillars for His temple.  Phillips Brooks
Who hath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.  Mallet
You can bear anything if it isn't your own fault.  Katherine Fullerton Gerould
Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.  Thomas Jefferson
Advertising is the essence of public contact.  Cyrus H. K. Curtis
Advertising is the genie which is transforming America into a place of comfort, luxury and ease for millions.  William Allen White
Advertising is the key to world prosperity; without it today modern business would be paralyzed.  Julius Klein
Advertising is the principle of mass production applied to selling.  Dr. J. T. Dorrance
As a profession advertising is young; as a force it is as old as the world. The first four words ever uttered, "Let there be light," constitute its charter. All nature is vibrant with its impulse.  Bruce Barton
Business today consists in persuading crowds.  Gerald Stanley Lee
I would rather pay ten million dollars for trademark-goodwill without property than one million dollars for property without trademark-goodwill.  George K. Morrow
If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.  C. F. Kettering
Sanely applied advertising could remake the world.  Stuart Chase
The advertising man is a liaison between the products of business and the mind of the nation. He must know both before he can serve either.  Glenn Frank
The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.  Derby Brown
The great art in writing advertisements is the finding out of a proper method to catch the reader's eye; without which, a good thing may pass over unobserved, or lost among commissions of bankrupt.  Addison
A thousand times listen to the counsel of your friend, but seek it only once.  A. S. Hardy
A woman's advice is not worth much, but he who doesn't heed it is a fool.  Pedro Calderon
Advice and reprehension require the utmost delicacy; painful truths should be delivered in the softest terms, and expressed no farther than is necessary to produce their due effect. A courteous man will mix what is conciliating with what is offensive; praise with censure; deference and respect with the authority of admonition, so far as can be done in consistence with probity and honor. The mind revolts against all censorian power which displays pride or pleasure in finding fault; but advice, divested of the harshness, and yet retaining the honest warmth of truth, is like honey put round the brim of a vessel full of wormwood. Even this, however, is sometimes insufficient to conceal the bitterness of the draught.  Percival
Advice is a superfluity. Ninety-nine times out of a hundred people don't take it. The hundredth they do take it, but with a reservation. Then of course it turns out badly, and they think you an idiot, and never forgive you.  L. Malet
Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.  Coleridge
Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.  Johnson
Agreeable advice is seldom useful advice.  Massillon
Ah, what is more blessed than to put cares away! Gaius Valerius Catullus
Do not give to your friends the most agreeable counsels, but the most advantageous.  Tuckerman
Do not turn back when you are just at the goal.  Publilius Syrus
Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.  Plautus
Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgement.  Shakespeare
Giving advice is sometimes only showing our wisdom at the expense of another.  Shaftesbury
Good counsels observed are chains of grace.  Fuller
Harsh counsels have no effect: they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil.  Helvetius
He who calls in the aid of an equal understanding doubles his own; and he who profits by a superior understanding raises his powers to a level with the height of the superior understanding he unites with.  Burke
He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.  Karl von Knebel
How is it possible to expect mankind to take advice when they will not so much as take warning? Swift
I am not thinking of those shining precepts which are the registered property of every school; that is to say - learn as much by writing as by reading; be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites; keep men and things apart; guard against the prestige of great names; see that your judgments are your own, and do not shrink from disagreement; no trusting without testing; be more severe to ideas than to actions; do not overlook the strength of the bad cause or the weakness of the good; never be surprised by the crumbling of an idol or the disclosure of a skeleton; judge talent at its best and character at its worst; suspect power more than vice, and study problems in preference to periods.  Lord Acton (John E. E. Dalberg)
If someone gives you so-called good advice, do the opposite; you can be sure it will be the right thing nine out of ten times.  Anselm Feuerbach
It is a good divine that follows his own instructions. I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of twenty to follow mine own teaching.  Shakespeare
It is bad advice that cannot be altered.  Publilius Syrus
It is easy when we are well to give good advice to the sick.  Terence Andria
It is well to moor your bark with two anchors.  Publilius Syrus
It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self.  Rochefoucauld
Let no man presume to give advice to others who has not first given good counsel to himself.  Seneca
Let no man value at a little price a virtuous woman's counsel.  George Chapman
Man give away nothing so liberally as their advice.  Rochefoucauld
Many a man wins glory for prudence by seeking advice, then seeking advice as to what advice would be best to take, and finally following appetite.  Austin O'Malley
Many receive advice, few profit by it.  Publilius Syrus
Never thrust your own sickle into another's corn.  Publilius Syrus
No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.  Ben Jonson
Nothing is less sincere than our mode of asking and giving advice. He who asks seems to have deference for the opinion of his friend, while he only aims to get approval of his own and makes his friend responsible for his action. And he who gives repays the confidence supposed to be placed in him by a seemingly disinterested zeal, while he seldom means anything by his advice but his own interest or reputation.  Rochefoucauld
Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.  Horace [Quintas Horatius Flaccus]
That it is unwise to be heedless ourselves while we are giving advice to others, I will show in a few lines.  Phaedrus
The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve: we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right or wrong.  Charron
The bow too tensely strung is easily broken.  Publilius Syrus
The greatest trust between man and man is the trust of giving counsel.  Bacon
The worst men often give the best advice; our thoughts are better sometimes than our deeds.  Bailey
There is nothing of which men are more liberal than their good advice, be their stock of it ever so small; because it seems to carry in it an intimation of their own influence, importance or worth.  Young
They that will not be counselled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles.  Benjamin Franklin
Those who school others, oft should school themselves.  Shakespeare
To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability.  Goethe
Wait for the season when to cast good counsels upon subsiding passion.  Shakespeare
We ask advice; we mean approbation.  Colton
We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.  R. W. Alger
Whatever you can lose, you should reckon of no account.  Publilius Syrus
When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him.  Josh Billings
When a man has been guilty of any vice or folly, the best atonement he can make for it is to warn others not to fall into the like.  Addison
When a man seeks your advice he generally wants your praise.  Earl of Chesterfield
Woe to the vanquished.  Livy [Titus Livius]
You cannot put the same shoe on every foot.  Publilius Syrus
You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm.  Publilius Syrus
You should hammer your iron when it is glowing hot.  Publilius Syrus
Affectation differs from hypocrisy in being the art of counterfeiting qualities which we might with innocence and safety be known to want. Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy; affectation, a part of the chosen trappings of folly.  Johnson
Affectation in any part of our carriage is but the lighting up of a candle to show our defects, and never fails to make us taken notice of, either as wanting in sense or sincerity.  Locke
Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than the small-pox.  St. Evremond
Affectation is certain deformity. By forming themselves on fantastic models the young begin with being ridiculous, and often end in being vicious.  Blair
Affectation lights a candle to our defects, and though it may gratify ourselves, it disgusts all others.  Lavater
Affectation naturally counterfeits those excellencies which are farthest from our attainment, because knowing our defects we eagerly endeavor to supply them with artificial excellence.  Johnson
Affectation proceeds either from vanity or hypocrisy; for as vanity puts us on affecting false characters to gain applause, so hypocrisy sets us on the endeavor to avoid censures by concealing your vices under the appearance for their opposite virtues.  Fielding
All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich.  Lavater
All affectation proceeds from the supposition of possessing something better than the rest of the world possesses. Nobody is vain of possessing two legs and two arms, because that is the precise quantity of either sort of limb which everybody possesses.  Sydney Smith
All false practices and affectations of knowledge are more odious than any want or defect of knowledge can be.  Sprat
Among the numerous stratagems by which pride endeavors to recommend folly to regard, scarcely one meets with less success than affectation, which is a perpetual disguise of the real character by false appearances.  Johnson
Avoid all singularity and affectation. What is according to nature is best, while what is contrary to it is always distasteful. Nothing is graceful that is not our own.  Collier
Be yourself. Ape no greatness. Be willing to pass for what you are. A good farthing is better than a bad sovereign. Affect no oddness; but dare to be right, though you have to be singular.  S. Coley
Great vices are the proper objects of our detestation, and smaller faults of our pity, but the affectation appears to be the only true source of the ridiculous.  Fielding
Hearts may be attracted by assumed qualities, but the affections can only be fixed and retained by those that are real.  De Moy
Paltry affectation and strained allusions are easily attained by those who choose to wear them; but they are but the badges of ignorance or stupidity when it would endeavor to please.  Goldsmith
The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection [are] that a thing is your own and that it is your only one.  Aristotle
We are never so ridiculous by the qualities we have, as by those we affect to have.  Rochefoucauld
Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope.  Leigh Hunt
How often a new affection makes a new man. The sordid becomes liberal; the cowering, heroic; the frivolous girl, the steadfast martyr of patience and ministration, transfigured by deathless love.  E. H. Chapin
How sacred and beautiful is the feeling of affection in the pure and guileless soul! The proud may sneer at it, the fashionable call it a fable, the selfish and dissipated affect to despise it, but the holy passion is surely from heaven, and is made evil only by the corruptions of those it was sent to preserve and bless.  Mordaunt
I'd rather than that crowds should sigh for me, that from some kindred eye the trickling tear should steal.  H. K. White
If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of evil, it is a pure human love.  N. P. Willis
Mature affection, homage, devotion, does not easily express itself. Its voice is low. It is modest and retiring, it lays in ambush and waits. Such is the mature fruit. Sometimes a life glides away, and finds it still ripening in the shade. The light inclinations of very young people are as dust compared to rocks.  Dickens
Of all earthly music that which reaches farthest into heaven is the beating of a truly loving heart.  H. W. Beecher
Our affections are our life. We live by them; they supply our warmth.  Channing
Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to point us to that realm which is the real and endless home of the heart.  H. W. Beecher
The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.  Lacordaire
The affections, like conscience, are rather to be led than driven - Those who marry where they do not love, will be likely to love where they do not marry.  Fuller
The heart will commonly govern the head; and any strong passion, set the wrong way, will soon infatuate even the wisest of men; therefore the first part of wisdom is to watch the affections.  Waterland
There is in life no blessing like affection; it soothes, it hallows, elevates, subdues, and bringeth down to earth its native heaven: life has nought else that may supply its place.  L. E. Landon
There is so little to redeem the dry mass of follies and errors that make up so much of life, that anything to love or reverence becomes, as it were, a sabbath to the soul.  Bulwer
When a kiss says "I love you", it's okay. When a kiss says "I want you", it's wrong and you've gone too far.  Author Unknown
Affliction comes to us all not to make us sad, but sober; not to make us sorry, but wise; not to make us despondent, but by its darkness to refresh us, as the night refreshes the day; not to impoverish, but to enrich us, as the plough enriches the field; to multiply our joy, as the seed, by planting, is multiplied a thousand fold.  H. W. Beecher
Affliction is a divine diet which though it be not pleasing to mankind, yet Almighty God hath often imposed it as a good, though bitter, physic, to those children whose souls are dearest to him.  Izaak Walton
Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.  Atterbury
Affliction is not sent in vain from the good God who chastens those that he loves.  Southey
Affliction is the good man's shining scene; prosperity conceals his brightest ray; as night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.  Young
Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.  Mallet
Afflictions sent by providence melt the constancy of the noble minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile, as the same furnace that liquefies the gold, hardens the clay.  Colton
Ah! if you only know the peace there is in an accepted sorrow.  Mde. Guion
Amid my list of blessings infinite, stands this the foremost, "that my heart has bled." Young
As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their lustre. The more the diamond is cut the brighter it sparkles; and in what seems hard dealing, there God has no end in view but to perfect his people.  Guthrie
As sure as God puts his children into the furnace of affliction, he will be with them in it.  Spurgeon
As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.  Burton
By afflictions God is spoiling us of what otherwise might have spoiled us. When he makes the world too hot for us to hold, we let it go.  Powell
Come then, affliction, if my Father wills, and be my frowning friend. A friend that frowns is better than a smiling enemy.  Anonymous
Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary graces. Sanctified afflictions are spiritual promotions.  M. Henry
God sometimes washes the eyes of his children with tears that they may read aright his providence and his commandments.  T. L. Cuyler
Had I a hundred tongues, a hundred lips, a throat of iron and a chest of brass, I could not tell nen's countless sufferings.  Virgil [Publius Virgilius Maro]
Heaven but tries our virtue by affliction, and oft the cloud that wraps the present hour serves but to brighten all our future days.  J. Brown
How fast we learn in a day of sorrow! Scriptures shines out in a new effulgence; every verse seems to contain a sunbeam every promise stands out in illuminated splendor; things hard to be understood become in a moment plain.  H. Bonar
I have learned more of experimental religion since my little boy died than in all my life before.  Horace Bushnell
If you would not have affliction visit you twice; listen at once to what it teaches.  James Burgh
If your cup seem too bitter, if your burden seems too heavy, be sure that it is the wounded hand that is holding the cup, and that it is He who carries the cross that is carrying the burden.  S. I. Prime
It has done me good to be somewhat parched by the heat and drenched by the rain of life.  Longfellow
It is a great thing, when the cup of bitterness is pressed to our lips, to feel that it is not fate or necessity, but divine love working upon us for good ends.  E. H. Chapin
It is from the remembrance of joys we have lost that the arrows of affliction are pointed.  Mackenzie
It is not from the tall crowded workhouse of prosperity that men first or clearest see the eternal stars of heaven.  Theodore Parker
It is not until we have passed through the furnace that we are made to know how much dross there is in our composition.  Colton
Many secrets of religion are not perceived till they be felt, and are not felt but in the day of a great calamity.  Jeremy Taylor
Never on earth calamity so great, as not to leave to us, if rightly weighed, what would console 'mid what we sorrow for.  Shakespeare
Never was there a man of deep piety, who has not been brought into extremities - who has not been put into fire - who has not been taught to say, "Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him." Cecil
No Christian but has his Gethsemane; but every praying Christian will find there is no Gethsemane without its angel.  T. Binney
Nothing can occur beyond the strength of faith to sustain, or transcending the resources of religion to relieve.  T. Binney
Paradoxical as it may seem, God means not only to make us good, but to make us also happy, by sickness, disaster and disappointment.  C. A. Bartol
Sanctified afflictions are like so many artificers working on a pious man's crown to make it more bright and massive.  Ralph Cudworth
Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.  Mrs. Hemans
Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.  H. W. Beecher
The fineness and strength essential to our best being, and to make us do our work, come by the hammer and the fire, by the thorn in the flesh, the trouble and pain in our life, which may act in us as the fire acts in the iron, welding the fiber afresh.  Robert Collyer
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.  Chinese Proverb
The good are better made by ill, as odors crushed are sweeter still.  Rogers
The hiding places of men are discovered by affliction. As one has aptly said, "Our refuges are like the nests of birds; in summer they are hidden away among the green leaves, but in winter they are seen among the naked branches." J. W. Alexander
The lessons we learn in sadness and from loss are those that abide. Sorrow clarifies the mind, steadies it, forces it to weigh things correctly. The soil moist with tears best feeds the seeds of truth.  T. T. Munger
The lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.  Spurgeon
The most generous vine, if not pruned, runs out into many superfluous stems and grows at last weak and fruitless so doth the best man if he be not cut short in his desires, and pruned with afflictions.  Bp. Hall
The only way to meet affliction is to pass through it solemnly, slowly, with humility and faith, as the Israelites passed through the sea. Then its very waves of misery will divide, and become to us a wall, on the right side and on the left, until the gulf narrows before our eyes, and we land safe on the opposite shore.  Miss Mulock
The soil moist with tears best feeds the seeds of truth.  T. T. Munger
The soul that suffers is stronger that the soul that rejoices.  E. Shepard
The very afflictions of our earthly pilgrimage are presages of our future glory as shadows indicate the sun.  Richter
There is such a difference between coming out or sorrow merely thankful relief, and coming out of sorrow full of sympathy with, and trust in Him who has released us.  Phillips Brooks
Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.  Tillotson
Unspeakable, O Queen, is the sorrow you bid me renew.  Virgil [Publius Virgilius Maro]
We are apt to overlook the hand and heart of God in our afflictions, and to consider them as mere accidents, and unavoidable evils. This view makes them absolute and positive evils which admit of no remedy or relief. If we view our troubles and trials aside from the divine design and agency in them, we cannot be comforted.  Emmons
We should always record our thoughts in affliction: set up way-marks, that we may recur to them in health; for then we are in other circumstances, and can never recover our sick-bed views.  What seem to us but dim funereal tapers, may be heaven's distant lamps.  Longfellow
With the wind of tribulation God separates, in the floor of the soul, the wheat from the chaff.  Molinos
More and more Americans feel threatened by runaway technology, by large-scale organization, by overcrowding. More and more Americans are appalled by the ravages of industrial progress, by the defacement of nature, by man-made ugliness. If our society continues at its present rate to become less livable as it becomes more affluent, we promise all to end up in sumptuous misery.  John W. Gardner, No Easy Victories, ed. Helen Rowan, p. 57 (1968).
Tax reduction has an almost irresistible appeal to the politician, and it is no doubt also gratifying to the citizen. It means more dollars in his pocket, dollars that he can spend if inflation doesn't consume them first. But dollars in his pocket won't buy him clean streets or an adequate police force or good schools or clean air and water. Handing money back to the private sector in tax cuts and starving the public sector is a formula for producing richer and richer consumers in filthier and filthier communities. If we stick to that formula we shall end up in affluent misery.  John W. Gardner, The Recovery of Confidence, p. 152 (1970). He was secretary of health, education, and welfare 1965-1968.
We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.  Winston Churchill, lecture, Cleveland, Ohio, February 3, 1932. - Winston S. Churchill: His Complete Speeches, 1897-1963, ed. Robert Rhodes James, vol. 5, p. 5130 (1974).  Churchill was referring to the theory that over-production caused the Depression.
With breathtaking rapidity, we are destroying all that was lovely to look at and turning America into a prison house of the spirit. The affluent society, with relentless single-minded energy, is turning our cities, most of suburbia and most of our roadways into the most affluent slum on earth.  Attributed to Eric Sevareid. Unverified.
A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.  R. Palmer
A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.  Pindar
A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.  Steele
A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.  O. W. Holmes
Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up.  Tyron Edwards
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.  Goethe
Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth.  Richard Steele
Age is rarely despised but when it is contemptible.  Johnson
Age should fly concourse, cover in retreat defects of judgement, and the will subdue; walk thoughtful on the silent, solemn shore of that vast ocean it must sail so soon.  Young
Age sits with decent grace upon his visage, and worthily becomes his silver locks, who wears the marks of many years well spent, of virtue, truth well tried, and wise experience.  Rowe
Age that lessens the enjoyment of life, increases our desire of living.  Goldsmith
An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.  E. H. Chapin
As we advance in life the circle of our pains enlarge, while that of our pleasures contracts.  Madame Swetchine
As we grow old we become both more foolish and more wise.  Rochefoucauld
As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.  Richter
Cautious age suspects the flattering form, and only credits what experience tells.  Johnson
Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.  L. M. Child
Denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people and greatly assists in the circulation of their blood.  Logan Pearsall Smith
Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.  Swift
Give me a young man in whom there is something of the old, and an old man with something of the young: guided so, a man may grow old in body, but never in mind.  Marcus Tullius Cicero
Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.  Richter
He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath none is less than a man.  Shakespeare
He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.  George Herbert
He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.  Addison
How beautiful can time with goodness make an old man look.  Jerrold
How many fancy they have experience simply because they have grown old.  Stanislaus
I venerate old age; and I love not the man who can look without emotion upon the sunset of life, when the dusk of evening begins to gather over the watery eye, and the shadows of twilight grow broader and deeper upon the understanding.  Longfellow
If reverence is due from others to the old, they ought also to respect themselves; and by grave, prudent, and holy actions put a crown of glory upon their own gray heads.  Bp. Hopkins
If wrinkles must be written upon your brows; let them not be written upon the heart, for the spirit should never grow old.  James A. Garfield
In old age life's shadows are meeting eternity's day.  Clarke
It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.  L. M. Child
It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.  Edward Bulwer-Lytton
It is often the case with fine natures, that when the fire of the spirit dies out with increasing age, the power of intellect is unaltered or increased, and on originally educated judgement grows broader and gentler as the river of life widens out to the everlasting sea.  Mrs. Gatty
It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.  Goethe
Let us respect gray hairs, especially our own.  J. P. Senn
Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.  Richter
Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.  Bacon
My body, now close to fifty years of age, has become an old tree that bears bitter peaches, a snail which has lost its shell, a bagworm separated from its bag; it drifts with the winds and clouds that know no destination. Morning and night I have eaten traveler's fare, and have held out for alms a pilgrim's wallet.  Matsuo Basho
No one is so old that he cannot live yet another year, nor so young that he cannot die today.  Fernando de Rojas
No snow falls lighter than the snow of age; but none lies heavier, for it never melts.  L. M. Child
No wise man ever wished to be younger.  Swift
Nothing is more disgraceful than that an old man should have nothing to show to prove that he has lived long, except his years.  Seneca
Oh this age! How tasteless and illbred it is! Gaius Valerius Catullus
Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.  J. P. Senn
Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.  Cato
Old age is a blessed time. It gives us leisure to put off our earthly garments one by one, and dress ourselves for heaven. "Blessed are they that are home-sick, for they shall get home." L. M. Child
Old age is a tyrant, which forbids the pleasures of youth on pain of death.  Rochefoucauld
Old age is the harbor of all ills.  Bion
Old men are children for a second time.  Aristophanes
Old men are garrulous by nature.  Marcus Tullius Cicero
Old men's eyes are like old men's memories; they are strongest for things a long way off.  George Eliot
One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn and men labor under it; but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful.  Arnold
Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.  Pliny
Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.  T. Arnold
Some men never seem to grow old. Always active in thought, always ready to adopt new ideas, they are never chargeable with fogyism. Satisfied, yet ever dissatisfied, settled, yet ever unsettled, they always enjoy the best of what is, and are the first to find the best of what will be.  Shakespeare
That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.  Steele
That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.  Sheridan
That which is called dotage, is not the weak point of all old men, but only of such as are distinguished by their levity and weakness.  Cicero
The evening of a well-spent life brings its lamps with it.  Joubert
The golden age is before us, not behind us.  St. Simon
The Grecian ladies counted their age from their marriage, not from their birth.  Homer
The old men know when an old man dies.  Ogden Nash
The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.  J. F. Boyse
The vices of old age have the stiffness of it too; and as it is the unfittest time to learn in, so the unfitness of it to unlearn will be found much greater.  South
The young may die, but the old must! Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There are two things which grow stringer in the breast of man in proportion as he advances in years: the love of country and religion. Let them be never so much forgotten in youth, they sooner or later present themselves to us arrayed in all their charms, and excite in the recesses of our hearts in attachment justly due to their beauty.  Chateaubriand
There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.  Sir W. Temple
There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.  Tholuck
Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly.  William Shakespeare
These are the effects of doting age; vain doubts and idle cares and over caution.  Dryden
Thirst of power and of riches now bear sway, the passion and infirmity of age.  Froude
Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.  Shakespeare
To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.  Hazlitt
To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.  Bonstettin
Toward old age both men and women hang to life by their habits.  Charles Reade
We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.  Bulwer
When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.  Madame de Stael
When men grow virtuous in their old age, they are merely making a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.  Swift
When one becomes indifferent to women, to children, and to young people, he may know that he is superannuated, and has withdrawn from what is sweetest and purest in human existence.  A. B. Alcott
When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over.  G. MacDonald
When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortable when we grow old; and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.  Pope
While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.  A. B. Alcott
Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young, have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.  Lewis Mumford
Worry; doubt; self-distrust; fear and despair - these are the long; long years that bow the head and turn the growing spirit back to dust.  Author Unknown
Ye who are old, remember youth with thought of affection.  Shakespeare
Year's wrinkle the skin; but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.  Author Unknown
Years do not make sages; they only mame old men.  Madame Swetchine
You are as young as your faith; as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence; as old as your fear; as young as your hope; as old as your despair.  Author Unknown
You take all the experience and judgment of men over fifty out of the world and there wouldn't be enough left to run it.  Henry Ford
Youth changes its tastes by the warmth of its blood; age retains its tastes by habit.  Rochefoucauld
As I give thought to the matter, I find four causes for the apparent misery of old age; first, it withdraws us from active accomplishments; second, it renders the body less powerful; third, it deprives us of almost all forms of enjoyment; fourth, it stands not far from death.  Marcus Tullius Cicero, De Senectute (Of Old Age), books, section 15. - Herbert N. Couch, Cicero on the Art of Growing Old, p. 21 (1959).
Between the years of ninety-two and a hundred and two, however, we shall be the ribald, useless, drunken, outcast person we have always wished to be. We shall have a long white beard and long white hair; we shall not walk at all, but recline in a wheel chair and bellow for alcoholic beverages; in the winter we shall sit before the fire with our feet in a bucket of hot water, a decanter of corn whiskey near at hand, and write ribald songs against organized society; strapped to one arm of our chair will be a forty-five caliber revolver, and we shall shoot out the lights when we want to go to sleep, instead of turning them off; when we want air we shall throw a silver candlestick through the front window and be damned to it; we shall address public meetings (to which we have been invited because of our wisdom) in a vein of jocund malice. We shall but we don't wish to make any one envious of the good time that is coming to us.  We look forward to a disreputable, vigorous, unhonoured, and disorderly old age.  Don Marquis, The Almost Perfect State, pp. 183-84 (1927).
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.  Andr\'e9 Maurois, The Art of Living, trans. James Whitall, chapter 8, pp. 282-83 (1940).
Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.  Attributed to Maurice Chevalier. - James B. Simpson, Contemporary Quotations, p. 295 (1964), citing The New York Times, Sunday, October 9, 1960. Unverified.
This increase in the life span and in the number of our senior citizens presents this Nation with increased opportunities: the opportunity to draw upon their skill and sagacity - and the opportunity to provide the respect and recognition they have earned. It is not enough for a great nation merely to have added new years to life - our objective must also be to add new life to those years.  President John F. Kennedy, special message to the Congress on the needs of the nation's senior citizens, February 21, 1963. - Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F Kennedy, 1963, p. 189.
To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser.  Robert Louis Stevenson, "Crabbed Age and Youth" Virginibus Puerisque and Later Essays, p. 67 (1969). Written between 1874-1879.
Yet somehow our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members.  Pearl S. Buck, My Several Worlds, p. 337 (1954).
Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mould its laws.  Sir R. Peel
Agitation is the method that plants the school by the side of the ballot-box.  Wendell Phillips
Agitation prevents rebellion, keeps the peace, and secures progress. Every step she gains is gained forever. Muskets are the weapons of animals. Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.  Wendell Phillips
Agitation, under pretence of reform, with a view to overturn revealed truth and order, is the worst kind of mischief.  C. Simmons
Those who mistake the excitement and agitation of reform for the source of danger, must have overlooked all history.	We believe in excitement when the theme is great: in agitation when huge evils are to be reformed. It is thus that a state or nation clears itself of great moral wrongs and effects important changes. Still waters gather to themselves poisonous ingredients, and scatter epidemics and death. The noisy, tumbling brook, and the rolling and rearing ocean, are pure and healthful. The moral and political elements need the rocking and heavings of free discussion, for their own purification. The nation feels a healthier pulsation, and breathes a more invigorating atmosphere, than if pulpit, platform, and press, were all silent as the tomb, leaving misrule and oppression unwatched and unscathed.  P. Cooke
Agnosticism is the philosophical, ethical, and religious dry-rot of the modern world.  F. E. Abbot
Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for professing to believe.  Thomas Henry Huxley
An agnostic is a man who doesn't know whether there is a God or not, doesn't know whether he has a soul or not, doesn't know whether there is a future life or not, doesn't believe that any one else knows anymore about these matters than he does, and thinks it a waste of time to try to find out.  Dana
The agnostic's prayer: "O God, if there is a god, save my soul, if I have a soul." Ernest Renan
The agrarian would divide all the property in the community equally among its members. But if so divided today, industry on the one hand, and idleness on the other, would make it unequal on the morrow. There is no agrarianism in the providence of God.  Tyron Edwards
The term "agnostic" is only the Greek equivalent of the Latin and English "Ignoramus" - a name one would think scientists would be slow to apply to themselves.  The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.  Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.  Edmund Burke
There is only one greater folly than that of the fool who says in his heart there is no God, and that is the folly of the fool that says with its head that it does not know whether there is a god or not.  Bismarck
What, indeed, is agnosticism, but, to use an expressive term, "shamefaced" materialism.  Friedrich Engels (1820-1895)
Blessed is the man who has a skin of right thickness. He can work happily in spite of enemies and friends.  Henry J. Bailey
A study of depressions since the Civil War brings out the conclusion that if a decline in the agricultural purchasing power did not actually start the general economic collapse it added almost immediately its immense weight to the general collapse with a vast and devastating impetus.  Louis Bromfield
Agriculture for an honorable and highminded man, is the best of all occupations or arts by which men procure the means of living.  Xenophon
Agriculture is the foundation of manufactures, since the productions of nature are the materials of art.  Gibbon
Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.  Johnson
Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country. We will answer their demand for a gold standard by saying to them: You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns, you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.	William Jennings Bryan, speech at the Democratic national convention, Chicago, Illinois, July 8, 1896. - Speeches of William Jennings Bryan, rev., vol. 1, pp. 248-49 (1911).  Often referred to as the "Cross of Gold" speech because of its widely-quoted concluding sentence, above. He served in Congress 1891-1895.
Command large fields, but cultivate small ones.  Virgil
For of all gainful professions, nothing is better, nothing more pleasing, nothing more delightful, nothing better becomes a well-bred man than agriculture.  Marcus Tullius Cicero, De Officiis, book 1, chapter 42, Cicero's Three Books of Offices, or Moral Duties, trans. Cyrus R. Edmonds, p. 73 (1873).
He that would look with contempt on the pursuits of the farmer, is not worthy the name of a man.  H. W. Beecher
In a moral point of view, the life of the agriculturist is the most pure and holy of any class of men; pure, because it is the most healthful, and vice can hardly find time to contaminate it; and holy, because it brings the Deity perpetually before his view, giving him thereby the most exalted notions of supreme power, and the most endearing view of the divine benignity.  Lord John Russell
In the age of acorns, before the times of Ceres, a single barley-corn had been of more value to mankind than all the diamonds of the mines of India.  H. Brooke
Let the farmer for evermore be honored in his calling, for they who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God.  Thomas Jefferson
The farther we get away from the land, the greater our insecurity.  Henry Ford
The first three men in the world were a gardener, a ploughman, and a grazier; and if any object that the second of these was a murderer, I desire him to consider that as soon as he was so, he quitted our profession, and turned builder.  Cowley
The frost is God's plough which he drives through every inch of ground in the world, opening each clod, and pulverizing the whole.  Fuller
There seems to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth: the first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their conquered neighbors - this is robbery, the second by commerce, which is generally cheating; the third by agriculture, the only honest way, wherein man receives a real increase of the seed thrown into the ground in a kind of continual miracle, wrought by the hand of God in his favor, as a reward for his innocent life and his virtuous industry.  Benjamin Franklin
Trade increases the wealth and glory of a country; but its real strength and stamina are to be looked for among the cultivators of the land.  Lord Chatham
We may talk as we please of lilies, and lions rampant, and spread eagles in fields of d'or or d'argent, but if heraldry were guided by reason, a plough in the field arable would be the most noble and ancient arms.  Cowley
When agricultural land and its productivity falls below a certain standard in relation to population, meat, poultry and dairy products become either prohibitively high in price or altogether unobtainable and a direct cereal diet becomes the necessity of the bulk of any population.  Louis Bromfield
Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable; however, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it, than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.  Earl of Chesterfield
Aim at the sun, and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself.  J. Hawes
Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.  Bulwer
High aims and lofty purposes are the wings of the soul aiding it to mount to heaven.  S. Spring
High aims and lofty purposes are the wings of the soul aiding it to mount to heaven. In God's word we have a perfect standard both of duty and character, that by the influence of both, appealing to the best principles of our nature, we may be roused to the noblest and best efforts.  S. Spring
High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.  Tyron Edwards
In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.  Longinus
It is a sad thing to begin life with low conceptions of it. It may not be possible for a young man to measure life; but it is possible to say, I am resolved to put life to its noblest and best use.  T. T. Munger
Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.  T. T. Munger
Resolved to live with all my might while I do live, and as I shall wish I had done ten thousand ages hence.  Jonathan Edwards
The man who seeks one, and but one, thing in life may hope to achieve it; but he who seeks all things, wherever he goes, only reaps, from the hopes which he sows, a harvest of barren regrets.  Bulwer
We want an aim that can never grow vile, and which cannot disappoint our hope. There is but one such on earth, and it is that of being like God. He who strives after union with perfect love must grow out of selfishness, and his success is secured in the omnipotent holiness of God.  S. Brooke
What are the aims which are at the same time duties? - They are the perfecting of ourselves, and the happiness of others.  Kant
I wanted the gold, and I sought it; I scrabbled and mucked like a slave.  Was it famine or scurvy - I fought it; I hurled my youth into a grave.  I wanted the gold, and I got it - Came out with a fortune last fall, - Yet somehow life's not what I thought it, And somehow the gold isn't all.  No! There's the land. (Have you seen it?) It's the cussedest land that I know, From the big, dizzy mountains that screen it To the deep, deathlike valleys below.  Some say God was tired when He made it; Some say it's a fine land to shun; Maybe; but there's some as would trade it For no land on earth - and I'm one.  Robert W. Service, "The Spell of the Yukon,' stanzas 1 and 2, The Spell of the Yukon, p. 15 (1961).
Alchemy may be compared to the man who told his sons of gold buried somewhere in his vineyard, where they by digging found no gold, but by turning up the mould about the roots of their vines, procured a plentiful vintage. So the search and endeavors to make gold have brought many useful inventions and instructive experiments to light.  Bacon
I have always looked upon alchemy in natural philosophy, to be like over enthusiasm in divinity, and to have troubled the world much to the same purpose.  Sir W. Temple
Dear Friend:	
I had not intended to discuss this controversial subject at this particular time. However, I want you to know that I do not shun a controversy. On the contrary, I will take a stand on any issue at any time, regardless of how fraught with controversy it may be. You have asked me how I feel about whiskey. Here is how I stand on the question.  If, when you say whiskey you mean the Devil's brew, the poison scourge, the bloody monster that defiles innocence, dethrones reason, destroys the home, creates misery and poverty takes the bread from the mouths of little children; if you mean the evil drink that topples the Christian man and woman from the pinnacles of righteous, gracious living into the bottomless pit of degradation and despair, shame and helplessness and hopelessness, then certainly I am against it with all of my power.
But, if, when you say whiskey, you mean the oil of conversation, the philosophic wine, the ale that is consumed when good fellows get together, that puts a song in their hearts and laughter on their lips and the warm glow of contentment in their eyes; if you mean Christmas cheer; If you mean the stimulating drink that puts the spring in the old gentleman's step on a frosty morning; if you mean the drink that enables a man to magnify his joy and his happiness and to forget, if only for a little while, life's great tragedies, and the heartbreaks and sorrows; if you mean that drink, the sale of which pours into our treasuries untold millions of dollars, which are used to provide tender care for our little crippled children, our blind, our deaf, our dumb, our pitiful aged and infirm, to build highways, hospitals, and schools, then certainly I am in favor of it.  Author unknown.  According to former Representative D. R. Billy Matthews, this story was told in the early 1960s by another member of Congress, who did not know the author. It purports to be the reply of a congressman to a constituent who had written the congressman to ask, "Where do you stand on whiskey?"
Drunkenness is the ruin of reason. It is premature old age. It is temporary death.  St. Basil
I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class.	Abraham Lincoln, address before the Springfield [Illinois] Washingtonian Temperance Society, February 22, 1842. - The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Roy P Basler, vol. 1, p. 278 (1953).
I intend to die in a tavern; let the wine be placed near my dying mouth, so that when the choirs of angels come, they may say, "God be merciful to this drinker!" Walter Map [Mapes]
O thou invisible spirit of wine! if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil! William Shakespeare
There is as much of a chance of repealing the eighteenth amendment as there is for a humming bird to fly to the planet Mars with the Washington Monument tied to its tail. This country is for temperance and prohibition and it is going to continue to elect members of Congress who believe in that.  Senator Morris Sheppard, as reported by The Washington Post, September 25, 1930, p. 5.
Were I to commence my administration again, the first question I would askrespecting a candidate would be, "Does he use ardent spirits?"	Attributed to Thomas Jefferson in both Samuel Austin Worcester, Cherokee Almanac, p. 36 (1850), and Charles Noel Douglas, Forty Thousand Quotations, p. 544 (1925). Unverified in Jefferson's writings. Possibly spurious.
Whisky - I like it, I always did, and that is the reason I never use it.  General Robert E. Lee
Allegories are fine ornaments and good illustrations, but not proof.  Luther
Allegories, when well chosen, are like so many tracks of light in a discourse, that make everything about them clear and beautiful.  Addison
The allegory of a sophist is always screwed; it crouches and bows like a snake, which is never straight, whether she go, creep, or lie still; only when she is dead, she is straight enough.  Luther
It is not given to us to peer into the mysteries of the future. Still, I vow my hope and faith, sure and inviolate, that in the days to come the British and American peoples will for their own safety and for the good of all walk together side by side in majesty, in justice, and in peace.  Prime Minister Winston Churchill, speech to a joint session of Congress, Washington, D.C., December 26, 1941. - Winston S. Churchill: His Complete Speeches, 1897-1963, ed. Robert Rhodes James, vol. 6, p. 6541 (1974).  These words, the conclusion of Churchill's speech, were followed by "Prolonged applause, the Members of the Senate and their guests rising," according to the Congressional Record, vol. 87, p. 10119.
We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow.  Lord Palmerston, remarks in the House of Commons defending his foreign policy, March 1, 1848. - Hansards Parliamentary Debates, 3d series, vol. 97, col. 122.
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.  H. W. Beecher
All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. Joseph Conrad, A Personal Record (1912)
Ambition can creep as well as soar.  Burke
Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.  Sallust [Gaius Sallustius Crispus] The War with Catiline, 10
Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to tough the heavens.  Lilly
Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.  Otway
Ambition is an idol on whose wings great minds are carried to extremes, to be sublimely great, or to be nothing.  Southern
Ambition is but the evil shadow of aspiration.  G. MacDonald
Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.  Denham
Ambition is not a vice of little people.  Montaigne
Ambition is not a weakness unless it be disproportioned to the capacity. To have more ambition than ability is to be at once weak and unhappy.  G. S. Hillard
Ambition is the avarice of power; and happiness herself is soon sacrificed to that very lust of dominion which was first encouraged only as the best means of obtaining it.  Colton
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.  T. D. English
Ambition is the spur that makes man struggle with destiny. It is heaven's own incentive to make purpose great and achievement greater.  Donald G. Mitchell
Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power, that avarice makes as to wealth. She begins by accumulating it as a means to happiness, and finishes by continuing to accumulate it as an end.  Colton
Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices: so climbing is performed in the same posture as creeping.  Swift
Ambition thinks no face so beautiful, as that which looks from under a crown.  Sir P. Sidney
Ambition, if you please, means progress. Either we go up or we go out. We do not stand still.  Walter Dill Scott
Any man who is unable to change his method and adapt himself to change of conditions, because of closed-mindedness toward progressive improvement and development, lacks ambition. He is dead mentally because his mind is locked or tightly closed against doing anything different. The things we close our minds against today may be taken for granted tomorrow.  Walter Dill Scott
As dogs in a wheel, or squirrels in a cage, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.  Burton
As he was valiant, I honor him; but, as he was ambitious, I slew him.  William Shakespeare
Fling away ambition. By that sin angels fell. How then can man, the image of his Maker, hope to win by it? Shakespeare
Give me the boy who rouses when he is praised, who profits when he is encouraged and who cries when he is defeated. Such a boy will be fired by ambition; he will be stung by reproach, and animated by preference; never shall I apprehend any bad consequences from idleness in such a boy.  Marcus Fabius Quintilian
Great souls, by nature half divine, soar to the stars, and hold a near acquaintance with the gods.  Rowe
High seats are never but uneasy, and crowns are always stuffed with thorns.  Brooks
How like a mounting devil in the heart rules the unreined ambition.  N. P. Willis
I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome.  Julius Caesar
It is by attempting to reach the top at a single leap, that so much misery is caused in the world.  Cobbett
It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.  Seneca
It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats who hide the truth in their hearts, and like jugglers, show another thing in their mouths; to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their interests, and put on a good face where there is no corresponding good will.  Sallust
It will not be amiss to distinguish the three kinds and as it were three grades of ambition in mankind. The first is of those who desire to extend their own power in their native country; which kind is vulgar and degenerate. The second is of those who labor to extend the power of their country and its dominion among men. This certainly has more dignity, though not less covetousness. But if a man endeavor to establish and extend the power and dominion of the human race itself over the universe, his ambition (if ambition it can be called) is without doubt both a more wholesome thing and a more noble than the other two. Now the empire of man over things depends wholly on the arts and sciences. For we cannot command nature except by obeying her.  Francis Bacon
Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.  Horace
Say what we will, we may be sure that ambition is an error. Its wear and tear of heart are never recompensed; it steals away the freshness of life; it deadens our vivid and social enjoyments; it shuts our souls to our youth; and we are old ere we remember that we have made a fever and a labor of our raciest years.  Bulwer
The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.  Cicero
The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes.  Bruyere
The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious men of the blasts of fortune.  Penn
The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.  Shakespeare
To be ambitious of true honor and of the real glory and perfection of our nature is the very principle and incentive of virtue; but to be ambitious of titles, place, ceremonial respects, and civil pageantry, is as vain and little as the things are which we court.  Sir P. Sidney
Too low they build who build below the skies.  Young
Too often those who entertain ambition, expel remorse and nature.  Shakespeare
When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept;	Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.	William Shakespeare
Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions.  Hume
America has proved that it is practicable to elevate the mass of mankind - the laboring or lower class - to raise them to self-respect, to make them competent to act a part in the great right and the great duty of self-government; and she has proved that this may be done by education and the diffusion of knowledge. She holds out an example a thousand times more encouraging than ever was presented before to those nine-tenths of the human race who are born without hereditary fortune or hereditary rank.  Daniel Webster
America is a fortunate country; she grows by the follies of our European nations.  Napoleon
America is one nation where everyone is presumed innocent - until the president offers him a job.  Wildlife Harvest
America is rising with a giant's strength. Its bones are yet but cartilages.  Fisher Ames
Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood - the virtues that made America. The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.  Theodore Roosevelt, letter to S. Stanwood Menken, chairman, committee on Congress of Constructive Patriotism, January 10, 1917. Roosevelt's sister, Mrs. Douglas Robinson, read the letter to a national meeting, January 26, 1917. - Proceedings of the Congress of Constructive Patriotism, Washington, D.C., January 25-27, 1917, p. 172 (1917).
Americans invent everything, but don't profit by them. They invented the League of Nations but are not in it and cocktails but do not drink them.  Aristide Briand
America - It is a fabulous country, the only fabulous country; it is the only place where miracles not only happen, but where they happen all the time.  Thomas Wolfe, Of Time and the River, book 2, chapter 14, p. 155 (1935).
America - half-brother to the world.  Bailey
An ordering of society which relegates religion, democracy and good faith among nations to the background can find no place within it for the ideals of the Prince of Peace. The United States rejects such an ordering, and retains its ancient faith.  Franklin D. Roosevelt
But America is a great, unwieldy Body. Its Progress must be slow. It is like a large Fleet sailing under Convoy. The fleetest Sailors must wait for the dullest and slowest. Like a Coach and six - the swiftest Horses must be slackened and the slowest quickened, that all may keep an even Pace.  John Adams, letter to Abigail Adams, June 11/June 17, 1775. - Adams Family Correspondence, ed. L. H. Butterfield, vol. 1, p. 216 (1963).
Every man among us is more fit to meet the duties and responsibilities of citizenship because of the perils over which, in the past, the nation has triumphed; because of the blood and sweat and tears, the labor and the anguish, through which, in the days that have gone, our forefathers moved on to triumph.  Theodore Roosevelt, assistant secretary of the Navy, speech before the Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island, June 1897. - "Washington's Forgotten Maxim," American Ideals (vol. 13 of The Works of Theodore Roosevelt, national ed.), chapter 12, p. 198 (1926).  See No. 411 for the maxim Roosevelt felt had been forgotten.
Half the misunderstandings between Britain and America are due to the fact that neither will regard the other as what it is - in an important sense of the word - a foreign country. Each thinks of the other as a part of itself which has somehow gone off the lines. What would have been pardonable and even commendable in a foreigner is blameworthy in a cousin.  John Buchan
He is an American, who, leaving behind him all his ancient prejudices and manners receives new ones from the new mode of life he has embraced, the new government he obeys, and the new rank he holds. Here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men, whose labors and posterity will one day cause great changes in the world.  Michel-Guillaume Jean de Cr'evecoeur (1735-1813)
I am going home, America - farewell. For seventeen years, I have enjoyed your hospitality, visited every one of your 50 states. I can say I know you well. I admire and love America. It is my second home. What I have to say to you now in parting is both a tribute and a warning: Never forget, Americans, that yours is a spiritual country. Yes, I know that you are a practical people. Like others, I have marveled at your factories, your skyscrapers and you arsenals. But underlying everything else is the fact that America began as a God-loving, God-fearing, God-worshiping people, knowing that there is a spark of the Divine in each one of us. It is this respect for the dignity of the human spirit which makes America invincible. May it always endure. And so I say again in parting, thank you, America, and farewell. May God keep you always - and may you always keep God.  General Carlos P. Romuloe
I believe that we are lost here in America, but I believe we shall be found. And this belief, which mounts now to the catharsis of knowledge and conviction, is for me - and I think for all of us - not only our own hope, but America's everlasting, living dream.  Thomas Wolfe, Yon Can't Go Home Again, chapter 48, p. 741 (1940).
I cannot say that I am in the slightest degree impressed by your bigness, or your material resources, as such. Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation. The great issue, about which hangs true sublimity, and the terror of overhanging fate, is what are you going to do with all these things? 	Thomas Henry Huxley, address on university education delivered at the formal opening of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, September 12, 1876. - Huxley, American Addresses, p 125 (1877).  Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey used the same words in a commencement address at the Holton-Arms School, Bethesda, Maryland, June 1967. - The Washington Post, June 11, 1967, p. K3.
I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision - Carl Sandburg, interview with Frederick Van Ryn, This Week Magazine, January 4, 1953, p. 11.	Sandburg had used these words previously at a rally at Madison Square Garden, New York City, October 28, 1952, praising Adlai E. Stevenson during his 1952 presidential campaign. - The Papers of Adlai E. Stevenson, vol. 4, p. 175 (1955).	A similar prediction was made by Benjamin Franklin nearly two centuries earlier in a letter to George Washington, March 5, 1780: "I must soon quit the Scene, but you may live to see our country flourish, as it will amazingly and rapidly after the war is over. like a field of young Indian corn, which long fair weather and Sunshine had enfeebled and discolored, and which in that weak State, by a Thunder Gust, of violent wind, hail, and rain,' seem'd to be threaten'd with absolute destruction; yet the storm being past, it recovers fresh verdure, shoots up with double vigour, and delights the eye, not of its owner only, but of every observing Traveller" - The Writings of Benjamin Franklin, ed. Albert H. Smyth, vol. 8, p. 29 (1907).
I was born on July 4, 1776, and the Declaration of Independence is my birth certificate. The bloodlines of the world run in my veins, because I offered freedom to the oppressed. I am many things, and many people. I am the nation.	I am 213 million living souls - and the ghost of millions who have lived and died for me.	I am Nathan Hale and Paul Revere. I stood at Lexington and fired the shot heard around the world. I am Washington, Jefferson and Patrick Henry. I am John Paul Jones, the Green Mountain Boys and Davy Crockett. I am Lee and Grant and Abe Lincoln.	I remember the Alamo, the Maine and Pearl Harbor. When freedom called I answered and stayed until it was over, over there. I left my heroic dead in Flanders Fields, on the rock of Corregidor, on the bleak slopes of Korea and in the steaming jungle of Vietnam.	I am the Brooklyn Bridge, the wheat lands of Kansas and the granite hills of Vermont. I am the coalfields of the Virginias and Pennsylvania, the fertile lands of the West, the Golden Gate and the Grand Canyon. I am Independence Hall, the Monitor and the Merrimac.	I am big. I sprawl from the Atlantic to the Pacific my arms reach out to embrace Alaska and Hawaii - 53 million square miles throbbing with industry. I am more than 5 million farms. I am forest, field, mountain and desert. I am quiet villages - and cities that never sleep.	You can look at me and see Ben Franklin walking down the streets of Philadelphia with his breadloaf under his arm. You can see Betsy Ross with her needle. You can see the lights of Christmas, and hear the strains of "Auld Lang Syne" as the calendar turns.	I am Babe Ruth and the World Series. I am 110,000 schools and colleges, and 330,000 churches where my people worship God as they think best. I am a ballot dropped in a box, the roar of a crowd in a stadium and the voice of a choir in a cathedral. I am an editorial in a newspaper and a letter to a Congressman.	I am Eli Whitney and Stephen Foster. I am 'Ibm Edison, Albert Einstein and Billy Graham. I am Horace Greeley, Will Rogers and the Wright brothers. I am George Washington Carver, Jonas Salk, and Martin Luther King.	I am Longfellow, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Walt Whitman and Thomas Paine.	Yes, I am the nation, and these are the things that I am. I was conceived in freedom and, God willing, in freedom I will spend the rest of my days.	May I possess always the integrity, the courage and the strength to keep myself unshackled, to remain a citadel of freedom and a beacon of hope to the world.	This is my wish, my goal, my prayer in this year of 1976 - two hundred years after I was born.	Otto Whittaker,	"I Am the Nation," Norfolk and Western Railway Company Magazine, January 15, 1976, front cover.  This was originally written in 1955 as a public relations advertisement for the Norfolk and Western Railway, now the Norfolk Southern Corporation, and did not contain the phrase, "the steaming jungle of Vietnam." It has been widely reprinted, generally without attribution, has been set to music, is reprinted by some newspapers every Independence Day, and has been read into the Congressional Record several times. Ellipses in original.
If she [America] forgets where she came from, if the people lose sight of what brought them along, if she listens to the deniers and mockers, then will begin the rot and dissolution.  Carl Sandburg, Remembrance Rock, epilogue, chapter 2, p. 1001 (1948).
If these Commentaries shall but inspire in the rising generation a more ardent love of their country, an unquenchable thirst for liberty, and a profound reverence for the constitution and the union, then they will have accomplished all that their author ought to desire. Let the American youth never forget that they possess a noble inheritance, bought by the toils, and sufferings, and blood of their ancestors; and capable, if wisely improved, and faithfully guarded, of transmitting to their latest posterity all the substantial blessings of life, the peaceful enjoyment of liberty, property, religion, and independence. The structure has been erected by architects of consummate skill and fidelity; its foundations are solid; its compartments are beautiful as well as useful; its arrangements are full of wisdom and order; and its defences are impregnable from without. It has been reared for immortality, if the work of man may justly aspire to such a title. It may, nevertheless, perish in an hour by the folly, or corruption, or negligence of its only keepers, THE PEOPLE. Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people in order to betray them.  Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States, 2d ed., vol. 2, chapter 45, p.617 (1851). This passage was not in the first edition, but in all later editions.  Justice Story served in Congress 1808-1809.
In America the taint of sectarianism lies broad upon the land. The nation is sectarian, rather than Christian.  James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851)
In America you must live life with a smile, even before your toothbrush has had time to reach your mouth.  Prince William of Sweden
In general, we have been too generous in the gift of office and power to men who do not understand the genius of America and who have little awareness of the backgrounds of the American way of life. Most of us will agree that it makes little difference where or when a man was born if he had this vivid sense of American history, if he has learned to put Country above Party, if freedom means more than personal security and if he refuses to tolerate appeasement of tyranny as the price of peace.  McIlyar H. Lichliter
It may be that without a vision men shall die. It is no less true that, without hard practical sense, they shall also die. Without Jefferson the new nation might have lost its soul. Without Hamilton it would assuredly have been killed in body.  James Truslow Adams, Jeffersonian Principles and Hamiltonian Principles, p. xvii (1932).
Joy is a fruit that Americans eat green.  Armando Zegri
Many reasons may be assigned for the amazing economic development of the United States. In my judgment the greatest factor has been that there was created here in America the largest area in the world in which there were no barriers to the exchange of goods and ideas.  Wendell Willkie
Of America it would ill beseem any Englishman, and me perhaps as little as another, to speak unkindly, to speak unpatriotically, if any of us even felt sure enough, America is a great, and in many respects a blessed and hopeful phenomenon. Sure enough, these hardy millions of Anglosaxon men prove themselves worthy of their genealogy. But as to a Model Republic, or a model anything, the wise among themselves know too well that there is nothing to be said. Their Constitution, such as it may be, was made here, not there.  Cease to brag to me of America, and its model institutions and constitutions.
One of the things that is wrong with America is that everybody who has done anything at all in his own field is expected to be an authority on every subject under the sun.  Elmer Davis
Our nation stands at a fork in the political road. In one direction lies a land of slander and scare; the land of sly innuendo, the poison pen, the anonymous phone call and hustling, pushing, shoving; the land of smash and grab and anything to win. This is Nixonland. But I say to you that it is not America.  Adlai E. Stevenson, The New America, ed. Seymour E. Harris, John B. Martin, and Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., p. 249 (1971).
Religion, morality, and knowledge, being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged. The utmost good faith shall always be observed towards the Indians; their lands and property shall never be taken from them without their consent; and, in their property, rights, and liberty, they shall never be invaded or disturbed, unless in just and lawful wars authorized by Congress; but laws founded in justice and humanity, shall from time to time be made for preventing wrongs being done to them, and for preserving peace and friendship with them.  Northwest Ordinance, 1787, article 3. - Henry Steele Commager, ed., Documents of American History, p. 131 (1934).
So, then, to every man his chance - to every man, regardless of his birth, his shining, golden opportunity - to every man the right to live, to work, to be himself, and to become whatever thing his manhood and his vision can combine to make him - this, seeker, is the promise of America.  Thomas Wolfe, You Can't Go Home Again, chapter 31, p. 508 (1940).
The American may not be a materialist but he has certainly hallowed commercialism, and made of it both a romantic and a moral adventure.  Agnes Repplier
The chief novelty America has added to the parliamentary practice of liberalism is the reverence accorded the courts in the direction of police. The minimum function of the courts in government has also been the maximum function in most liberal countries.  T. V. Smith
The educated American is profoundly skeptical about machines, inclined to regard every invention as obsolescent as soon as it has been made, but naively trustful about political paltitudes or philosophical half-truths.  Lord Eustace Percy
The great voice of America does not come from the seats of learning, but in a murmur from the hills and the woods and the farms and the factories and the mills, rolling on and gaining volume until it comes to us the voice from the homes of the common men. Do these murmurs come into the corridors of the university? I have not heard them.  Woodrow Wilson, president of Princeton, address to Princeton University alumni, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, April 17, 1910. - The Papers of Woodrow Wilson, ed. Arthur S. Link, vol. 20, p. 365 (1975).
The home of freedom, and the hope of the down-trodden and oppressed among the nations of the earth.  Daniel Webster
The metaphor of the melting pot is unfortunate and misleading. A more accurate analogy would be a salad bowl, for, though the salad is an entity, the lettuce can still be distinguished from the chicory, the tomatoes from the cabbage.  Carl N. Degler, Out of Our Past: The Forces That Shaped Modern America, rev. ed., chapter 10, section 4, p. 296 (1970).
The real democratic American idea is not that every man shall be on a level with every other, but that everyone shall have liberty, without hindrance, to be what God made him.  Henry Ward Beecher
The reason American cities are prosperous is that there is no place to sit down.  Alfred J. Talley
The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colors breaking through.  Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, ed. J. P. Mayer, trans. George Lawrence, vol. 1, part 1, chapter 2, p. 49 (1969). Originally published in 1835-1840.
This is what I call the American idea, a government of the people, by the people, and for the people - a government of the principles of eternal justice, the unchanging law of God.  Theodore Parker
Those of us who shout the loudest about Americanism in making character assassinations are all too frequently those who, by our own words and acts, ignore some of the basic principles of Americanism -	The right to criticize.  The right to hold unpopular beliefs.  The right to protest.  The right of independent thought.  Senator Margaret Chase Smith, remarks in the Senate, June 1, 1950, Congressional Record, vol. 96, p. 7894.	She added, "The American people are sick and tired of being afraid to speak their minds lest they be politically smeared as Communists or Fascists by their opponents." These and other remarks preceded the Declaration of Conscience (p. 7895), which she drafted and in which she was joined by six other Republican Senators.
To make it possible for our children, and for our children's children, to live in a world of peace. To make this country be more than ever a land of opportunity - of equal opportunity, full opportunity for every American. To provide jobs for all who can work, and generous help for those who cannot work. To establish a climate of decency and civility, in which each person respects the feelings and the dignity and the God-given rights of his neighbor. To make this a land in which each person can dare to dream, can live his dreams - not in fear, but in hope - proud of his community, proud of his country, proud of what America has meant to himself and to the world.  President Richard M. Nixon, address to the nation about the Watergate investigations, April 30, 1973. - Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard Nixon, 1973, p. 332.
To me, the irony of this involvement with size, as I observed earlier, is the unwillingness or inability of so many Americans to identify themselves with something as vast as the United States. Bigger cars, bigger parking lots, bigger corporate structures, bigger farms, bigger drug stores, bigger supermarkets, bigger motion-picture screens. The tangible and the functional expand, while the intangible and the beautiful shrink. Left to wither is the national purpose, national educational needs, literature and theater, and our critical faculties. The national dialogue is gradually being lost in a froth of misleading self-congratulation and cliche. National needs and interests are slowly being submerged by the national preoccupation with the irrelevant.  Senator J. William Fulbright, "In Need of a Consensus," Penrose Memorial Lecture, delivered to the American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 20, 1961. - Proceedings of the Society, August 1961, p. 352.
To us Americans much has been given; of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is our strength in support of the freedom our forefathers loved which has saved mankind from subjection to totalitarian power.  Norman Thomas
Unearned security during a long century had the effect upon our national habits of mind which the lazy enjoyment of unearned income so often has upon the descendants of a hard-working grandfather. It caused us to forget that man has to earn his security and his liberty as he has to earn his living.  Walter Lippmann
We are proud still to call ours a young nation. Hence we forget what we should remember: Our nation under the present Constitution has had a longer life unchallenged and unchanged by violent rebellion than any great nation on earth except Great Britain.  Norman Thomas
We cannot expect that everyone, to use the phrase of a decade ago, will "talk sense to the American people." But we can hope that fewer people will listen to nonsense. And the notion that this nation is headed for defeat through deficit, or that strength is but a matter of slogans, is nothing but just plain nonsense.  President John F. Kennedy, remarks prepared for delivery at the Trade Mart in Dallas, Texas, November 22, 1963. - Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F Kennedy, 1963, p. 891.  This speech was never delivered. President Kennedy was on his way to the Trade Mart when he was assassinated.  Kennedy referred to Adlai E. Stevenson's slogan from the 1952 presidential election campaign, No. 85.
We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all mankind.  President Franklin D. Roosevelt, fireside chat on national defense, May 26, 1940. - The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1940, p. 240 (1941).
We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven. We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own, intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us! President Abraham Lincoln, proclamation appointing a National Fast Day, March 30, 1863. - The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Roy P Basler, vol. 6, p. 156 (1953).
We have now at last grasped the hardest of all the truths this nation has had to learn; however remote the aggression, however distant the social or economic disasters that afflict other peoples, sooner or later we ourselves will feel their impact.  Sumner Welles
What then is the American, this new man? He is either an European, or the descendant of an European, hence that strange mixture of blood, which you will find in no other country.  J. Hector St. John Crevecoeur, "What Is an American," Letters from an American Farmer, p. 54 (1782, reprinted 1925).
What's right with America is a willingness to discuss what's wrong with America.  Harry L. Barnes
When God made the oyster, he guaranteed his absolute economic and social security. He built the oyster a house, his shell, to shelter and protect him from his enemies. . But when God made the Eagle, He declared, "The blue sky is the limit - build your own house!". The Eagle, not the oyster, is the emblem of America.  Author unknown. - Jacob M. Braude, Braude's Source Book for Speakers and Writers, p. 14 (1968).
A thousand years hence, perhaps in less, America may be what Europe is now - the noblest work of human wisdom, the grand scene of human glory, the fair cause of freedom that rose and fell.  Thomas Paine
I believe that the heaviest blow ever dealt at liberty's head will be dealt by this nation [the United States] in the ultimate failure of its example to the earth.  Charles Dickens
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.  Thomas Jefferson
The American experiment is the most tremendous and far reaching engine of social change which has ever either blessed or cursed mankind.  Charles Francis Adams
The American is a new man who acts upon new principles; he must therefore entertain new ideas, and form new opinions. From involuntary idleness, servile dependency, penury, and useless labor, he has passed to toils of a very different nature, rewarded by ample subsistence - this is an American.  Michel-Guillaume Jean de Cr'evecoeur (1735-1813)
The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition, and incompetence.
The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but the God of Israel is he that giveth strength and power unto his people.  John Adams
Every man becomes the image of the God he adores.  He whose worship is directed to a dead thing becomes a dead thing.  He who loves corruption rots.  He who loves a shadow becomes, himself, a shadow.  Thomas Merton
I have no reason to suppose, that he, who would take away my Liberty, would not when had me in his Power, take away everything else.  John Locke.
Freedom is not constituted soley of having a government of our own.  Under this idea most nations would be free.  We fought in the Revolutionary War against exclusive privileges and oppressive monopolies.  Senator John Taylog 1882
Insofar as the coercive powers of government are to be used to insure that a particular people get a particular things, it requires a kind of discrimination between, and an unequal treatment of, different people which is irreconcilable with a free society.  Friedrich Hayek
I have lived, sir, a long time and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, that God governs the affairs of men.  And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid?  Benjamin Franklin
A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it earned.  This is the sum of good government.  Thomas Jefferson
The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered, perhaps, as deeply, as finally, staked on the experience intrusted to the hands of the American people.  George Washington
Who shall reconstruct the fabric of demolished government?  Who shall rear again the well-proportioned columns of constitutional liberty?  Who shall frame together the skillful architecture which unites national sovereignty with State rights, individual security, and Public prosperity.  Daniel Webster
A pure democracy can admit no cure for the mischiefs of faction.  A common passion or interest will be felt by a mojority, and there is nothing to check the inducements to sacrifice the weaker party.  Hence it is, that democracies have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have, in general, been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.  James Madison
Your expression is the most important thing you can wear.  Benjamin Franklin
Go the extra mile - it is never crowded.  Benjamin Franklin
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were really the big things.  Benjamin Franklin
Never ruin an apology with an excuse.  Benjamin Franklin
The studious perusal of the Sacred Volume will make better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands. Thomas Jefferson
The Bible is the cornerstone of Liberty. Thomas Jefferson
It must be felt that there is no national security but in the nation's humble acknowledged dependence upon God and His overruling providence.   John Adams
I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to men.  All the good from the Savior of the world is communicated to us through this book.  Abraham Lincoln
The Bible is the rock on which our republic rests.  Andrew Jackson
Hold fast to the Bible as the sheet anchor of your liberties; write its precepts on your hearts and practice them in your lives.  To the influence of this Book we are indebted for the progress made, and to this we must look as our guide in the future.   Ulysses S. Grant
We believe that all men are created equal because they are created in the image of God.  Harry S Truman
Remember: amateurs built the ark, professionals built the Titanic.
This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.  Elbert Hubbard
Americans cleave to the things of this world as if assured that they will never die.  They clutch everything but hold nothing fast, and so lose grip as they hurry after some new delight. An American will build a house in which to pass his old age and sell it before the roof is on; he will plant a garden and rent it just as the trees are coming into bearing; he will clear a field and leave others to reap the harvest; he will take up a profession and leave it, settle in one place and soon go off elsewhere with his changing desires. If his private business allows him a moment's relaxation, he will plunge at once into the whirlpool of politics. Then, if at the end of a year crammed with work he has a little spare leisure, his restless curiosity goes with him traveling up and down the vast territories of the United States. Thus he will travel five hundred miles in a few days as a distraction from his happiness. Death steps in in the end and stops him before he has grown tired of this futile pursuit of that complete felicity which always escapes him. At first sight there is something astonishing in this spectacle of so many lucky men restless in the midst of abundance. But it is a spectacle as old as the world; all that is new is to see a whole people performing in it.  Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, ed. J. P Mayer, trans. George Lawrence, vol. 2, part 2, chapter 13, p. 536 (1969).
Americans never quit.  General Douglas Macarthur, president of the American Olympic committee, comment when the manager of the American boxing team in the 1928 Olympic games wanted to withdraw the team because of what he thought was an unfair decision against an American boxer. - The New York Times, August 9, 1928, p. 13.
For the American people are a very generous people and will forgive almost any weakness, with the possible exception of stupidity.  Will Rogers, The Illiterate Digest, p. 228 (1924).
Has it [popular sovereignty] not got down as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by boiling the shadow of a pigeon that had starved to death? Abraham Lincoln, rejoinder in the sixth debate with Senator Stephen A. Douglas, October 13, 1858. - The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Roy P Basler, vol. 3, p. 279 (1953).
I do not choose to be a common man. It is my right to be uncommon - if I can. I seek opportunity - not security. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the state look after me. I want to take the calculated risk; to dream and to build, to fail and to succeed. I refuse to barter incentive for a dole. I prefer the challenges of life to the guaranteed existence; the thrill of fulfillment to the stale calm of utopia. I will not trade freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout. I will never cower before any master nor bend to any threat. It is my heritage to stand erect, proud and unafraid; to think and act for myself, enjoy the benefit of my creations, and to face the world boldly and say, this I have done. All this is what it means to be an American.  Dean Alfange, creed. - Who's Who in America, 1984-85, vol. 1, p. 42. These words have appeared at the end of his entry in several successive editions.
I do not want a honeymoon with you. I want a good marriage. I want progress, and I want problemsolving which requires my best efforts and also your best efforts. I have no need to learn how Congress speaks for the people. As President, I intend to listen. But I also intend to listen to the people themselves - all the people - as I promised last Friday. I want to be sure that we are all tuned in to the real voice of America.  President Gerald R. Ford, address to a joint session of Congress, August 12, 1974. - Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Gerald R. Ford, 1974, p. 7.
I think very much of the people, as an old friend said he thought of woman. He said when he lost his first wife, who had been a great help to him in his business, he thought he was ruined - that he could never find another to fill her place. At length, however, he married another, who he found did quite as well as the first, and that his opinion now was that any woman would do well who was well done by. So I think of the whole people of this nation - they will ever do well if well done by. We will try to do well by them in all parts of the country, North and South, with entire confidence that all will be well with all of us.  President-elect Abraham Lincoln, remarks at Bloomington, Illinois, November 21, 1860. - The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Roy P. Basler, vol. 4, pp. 143-44 (1953).
Is it not the glory of the people of America, that, whilst they have paid a decent regard to the opinions of former times and other nations, they have not suffered a blind veneration for antiquity, for custom, or for names, to overrule the suggestions of their own good sense, the knowledge of their own situation, and the lessons of their own experience? To this manly spirit, posterity will be indebted for the possession, and the world for the example, of the numerous innovations displayed on the American theatre, in favor of private rights and public happiness.  James Madison, The Federalist, ed. Benjamin F. Wright, no. 14, p. 154 (1961).
Let's face it. Let's talk sense to the American people. Let's tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains, that we are now on the eve of great decisions, not easy decisions, like resistance when you're attacked, but a long, patient, costly struggle which alone can assure triumph over the great enemies of man - war, poverty and tyranny - and the assaults upon human dignity which are the most grievous consequences of each.  Adlai E. Stevenson, governor of Illinois, speech accepting presidential nomination, Democratic national convention, Chicago, Illinois, July 26, 1952. - Speeches of Adlai Stevenson, pp. 20-21 (1952).
Parties do not maintain themselves. They are maintained by effort. The government is not self-existent. It is maintained by the effort of those who believe in it. The people of America believe in American institutions, the American form of government and the American method of transacting business.  Calvin Coolidge, governor of Massachusetts, speech before the Republican Commercial 'Travelers' Club, Boston, Massachusetts, April 10, 1920. - Massachusetts State Library, George Fingold Library, Boston. Manuscripts: speeches and messages of Calvin Coolidge, 1895-1924.
Races didn't bother the Americans. They were something a lot better than any race. They were a People. They were the first self-constituted, self-declared, self-created People in the history of the world. And their manners were their own business. And so were their politics. And so, but ten times so, were their souls.  Archibald Macleish, Librarian of Congress, "The American Cause" address delivered at Faneuil Hall, Boston, Massachusetts, November 20, 1940. - MacLeish, A Time to Act; Selected Addresses, p. 115 (1943).
Sir, since the debate opened months ago those of us who have stood against this proposition have been taunted many times with being little Americans. Leave us the word American, keep that in your presumptuous impeachment, and no taunt can disturb us, no gibe discompose our purposes. Call us little Americans if you will, but leave us the consolation and the pride which the term American, however modified, still imparts.  Senator William E. Borah, remarks in the Senate, November 19, 1919, Congressional Record, vol. 58, p. 8783.  This speech, known as the "Little American" speech, referred to the treaty to ratify the League of Nations proposed after World War I.
 The average American is just like the child in the family. You give him some responsibility and he is going to amount to something. He is going to do something. If, on the other hand, you make him completely dependent and pamper him and cater to him too much, you are going to make him soft, spoiled and eventually a very weak individual.  President Richard M. Nixon, interview with Garnett D. Horner following election to a second presidential term, The Washington Star-News, November 9, 1972, p. 1.
The people reign over the American political world as God rules over the universe. It is the cause and the end of all things; everything rises out of it and is absorbed back into it.  Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, ed. J. P Mayer, trans. George Lawrence, vol. 1, part 1, chapter 4, concluding sentences, p. 60 (1969).
Amiable people, though often subject to imposition in their contact with the world, yet radiate so much of sunshine that they are reflected in all appreciative hearts.  Deluzy
How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.  Madame Swetchine
The constant desire of pleasing which is the peculiar quality of some, may be called the happiest of all desires in this that it rarely fails of attaining its end when not disgraced by affectation.  Fielding
To be amiable is most certainly a duty but it is not to be exercised at the expense of any virtue. He who seeks to do the amiable always can at times be successful only by the sacrifice of his manhood.  Simms
All amusements to which virtuous women are not admitted, are, rely upon it, deleterious in their nature.  Thackeray
Amusement is the waking sleep of labor. When it absorbs thought, patience, and strength that might have been seriously employed, it loses its distinctive character and becomes the task-master of idleness.  Wilmott
Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us, and leads us down imperceptibly in thoughtlessness to the grave.  Pascal
Amusement to an observing mind is study.  Disraeli
Amusements are to religion like breezed of air to the flame, gentle ones will fan it, but strong ones will put it out.  Thomas
Christian discipleship does not involve the abandonment of any innocent enjoyment. Any diversion or amusement which we can use so as to receive pleasure and enjoyment to ourselves, and do no harm to others, we have no right to use, whether we are Christians or not.  A. Gladden
Dwell not too long upon sports: for as they refresh a man that is weary, so they weary a man that is refreshed.  Fuller
I am a great friend to public amusements, for they keep people from vice.  Johnson
If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life.  Balzac
If you are animated by right principles, and are fully awakened to the true dignity of life, the subject of amusements may be left to settle itself.  T. T. Munger
Innocent amusements are such as excite moderately, and such as produce a cheerful frame of mind, not boisterous mirth; such as refresh, instead of exhausting, the system; such as recur frequently, rather than continue long; such as send us back to our daily duties invigorated in body and spirit; such as we can partake of in the presence and society of respectable friends; such as consist with and are favorable to a grateful piety; such as are chastened by self-respect, and are accompanied with the consciousness that life has a higher end than to be amused.  Channing
It is a sober truth that people who live only to amuse themselves, work harder at the task than most people do in earning their daily bread.  H. More
It is doing some service to humanity, to amuse innocently. They know but little of society who think we can bear to be always employed, either in duties or meditation, without relaxation.  H. More
It is exceedingly deleterious to withdraw the sanction of religion from amusement. If we feel that it is all injurious we should strip the earth of its flowers and blot out its pleasant sunshine.  E. H. Chapin
Joining in the amusements of others is, in our social state, the next thing to sympathy in their distresses, and even the slenderest bond that holds society together should rather be strengthened than snapt.  Landor
Let the world have whatever sports and recreations please them best, provided they be followed with discretion.  Burton
The church has been so fearful of amusements that the devil has had the charge of them; the chaplet of flowers has been snatched from the brow of Christ, and given to Mammon.  H. W. Beecher
The habit of dissipating every serious thought by a succession of agreeable sensations is as fatal to happiness as to virtue; for when amusement is uniformly substituted for objects of moral and mental interest, we lose all that elevates our enjoyments above the scale of childish pleasures.  Anna Maria Porter
Analogy, although it is not infallible, is yet that telescope of the mind by which it is marvelously assisted in the discovery of both physical and moral truth.  Colton
Those who reason only by analogies, rarely reason by logic, and are generally slaves to imagination.  C. Simmons
Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.  Henri Frederic Amiel
Anarchy is hatred of human authority; atheism of divine authority - two sides of the same whole.  Macpherson
Anarchy is the choking, sweltering, deadly, and killing rule of no rule; the consecration of cupidity and braying of folly and dim stupidity and baseness, in most of the affairs of men. Slop-shirts attainable three half-pence cheaper by the ruin of living bodies and immortal souls.  Carlyle
A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. Besides, the people of England well know that the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle of conservation, and a sure principle of transmission, without at all excluding a principle of improvement. It leaves acquisition free; but it secures what it acquires.  Edmund Burke Reflections on the Revolution in France, 1790.
All history shows the power of blood over circumstances, as agriculture shows the power of the seeds over the soil.  E. P. Whipple
Birth is nothing where virtue is not.  Moli're
Breed is stronger than pasture.  George Eliot
Consider whether we ought not to be more in the habit of seeking honor from our descendants than from our ancestors; thinking it better to be noble remembered than noble born; and striving so to live, that our sons, and our sons' sons, for ages to come, might still lead their children reverently to the doors out of which we had been carried to the grave, saying, "Look, that was his house, this was his chamber." Ruskin
Distinguished birth is like a cipher: it has no power in itself like wealth, or talent, or personal excellence, but it tells, with all the power of a cipher, when added to either of the others.  Boyes
Every man is his own ancestor, and every man is his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past.  Frederick H. Hedge
Good blood - descent from the great and good, is a high honor and privilege. He that lives worthily of it is deserving of the highest esteem; he that does not, of the deeper disgrace.  Colton
He that can only boast of a distinguished lineage, boasts of that which does not belong to himself; but he that lives worthily of it is always held in the highest honor.  Junius
Honorable descent is, in all nations, greatly esteemed. It is to be expected that the children of men of worth will be like their progenitors; for nobility is the virtue of a family.  Aristotle
How poor are all hereditary honors, those poor possessions from another's deeds, unless our own just virtues form our title, and give a sanction to our fond assumption.  Shirley
I am no herald to inquire after men's pedigrees: it sufficeth me if I know of their virtues.  Sir P. Sidney
I will not borrow merit from the dead, myself an undeserver.  Rowe
It is a noble faculty of our nature which enables us to connect our thoughts, sympathies, and happiness, with what is distant in place or time; and looking before and after, to hold communion at once with our ancestors and our posterity. There is a moral and philosophical respect for our ancestors, which elevates the character and improves the heart. Next to the sense of religious duty and moral feeling, I hardly know what should bear with stronger obligation on a liberal and enlightened mind, than a consciousness of an alliance with excellence which is departed; and a consciousness, too, that in its acts and conduct, and even in its sentiments and thoughts, it may be actively operating on the happiness of those that come after it.  Daniel Webster
It is a shame for a man to desire honor only because of his noble progenitors, and not to deserve it by his own virtue.  Chrysostom
It is fortunate to come of distinguished ancestry. - It is not less so to be such that people do not care to inquire whether you are of high descent or not.  Bruyere
It is indeed desirable to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.  Plutarch Morals. Of the Training of Children
It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, so he be a man of merit.  Horace
It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.  Ben Jonson
 It is with antiquity as with ancestry, nations are proud of the one, and individuals of the other; but if they are nothing in themselves, that which is their pride ought to be their humiliation.  Colton
It is, indeed, a blessing, when the virtues of noble races are hereditary.  Nabb
It would be more honorable to our distinguished ancestors to praise them in words less, but in deeds to imitate them more.  Horace Mann
Mere family never made a man great. - Thought and deed, not pedigree, are the passports to enduring fame.  Skobeleff
Nobility of birth does not always insure a corresponding nobility of mind; if it did, it would always act as a stimulus to noble actions; but it sometimes acts as a clog rather than a spur.  Colton
Nothing is more disgraceful than for a man who is nothing, to hold himself honored on account of his forefathers; and yet hereditary honors are a noble and splendid treasure to descendants.  Plato
Philosophy does not regard pedigree. She did not receive Plato as a noble, but made him so.  Seneca
Pride in boasting of family antiquity, makes duration stand for merit.  Zimmermann
Some decent, regulated pre-eminence, some preference given to birth, is neither unnatural nor unjust nor impolitic.  Burke
Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name.  Lucan
The environment fosters and selects; the seed must contain the potentiality and direction of the life to be selected.  George Santayana
The glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity; it allows neither their good nor their bad qualities to remain in obscurity.  Sallust
The inheritance of a distinguished and noble name is a proud inheritance to him who lives worthily of it.  Colton
The man of the true quality is not the man who labels himself with genealogical tables, and lives on the reputation of his fathers, but he in whose conversation and behavior there are references and characteristics positively unaccountable except on the hypothesis that his descent is pure and illustrious.  Theodore Parker
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestors is like a potato - the only good belonging to him is underground.  Sir Thomas Overbury
The origin of all mankind was the same: it is only a clear and a good conscience that makes a man noble, for that is derived from heaven itself.  Seneca
The pride of blood has a most important and beneficial influence. It is much to feel that the high and honorable belong to a name that is pledged to the present by the recollections of the past.  L. E. Landon
They that on glorious ancestors enlarge, produce their debt, instead of their discharge.  Young
They who depend on the merits of ancestors, search in the roots of the tree for the fruits which the branches ought to produce.  Isaac Barrow
Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity! John Quincy Adams
Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible.  Addison
We descend from Jove; in ancestral Jove Troy's sons rejoice.  Virgil [Publius Virgilius Maro] Aeneid, VII, 219
We take rank by descent. Such of us as have the longest pedigree, and are therefore the furthest removed from the first who made the fortune and founded the family, we are the noblest.  Froude
We will inherit nothing truly, but what our actions make us worthy of.  Chapman
What can we see in the longest kingly line in Europe, save that it runs back to a successful soldier? Walter Scott
When real nobleness accompanies the imaginary one of birth, the imaginary mixes with the real and becomes real too.  Breville
Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit places in conversation, and to recollect the latter on proper occasion.  Goethe
Anecdotes are sometimes the best vehicles of truth, and if striking and appropriate are often more impressive and powerful than argument.  Tyron Edwards
Occasionally a single anecdote opens a character; biography has its comparative anatomy, and a saying or a sentiment enables the skillful hand to construct the skeleton.  Wilmott
Some people exclaim, "Give me no anecdotes of an author, but give me his works"; and yet I have often found that the anecdotes are more interesting than the works.  Disraeli
Story-telling is a subject to two unavoidable defects: frequent repetition and being soon exhausted; so that whoever values this gift in himself, has need of a good memory, and ought frequently to shift his company.  Swift
Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth unseen, both when we sleep and when we wake.  Milton
The angels may have wider spheres of action and nobler forms of duty than ourselves, but truth and right to them and to us are one and the same thing.  E. H. Chapin
The guardian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us.  Richter
A man that does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.  H. W. Beecher
Act nothing in a furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.  Thomas Fuller
All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.  Paley
An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason.  Publilius Syrus
Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.  Pythagoras
Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow-pulsed and calm.  Robert G. Ingersoll
Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.  Tupper
Anger is a weed; hate is the tree.  St. Augustine Sermons 58
Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of a certain income can indulge.  G. W. Curtis
Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.  Malabar Proverb
Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.  Seneca
Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.  Thomas Fuller
Anger is one of the sinews of the Soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.  Thomas Fuller (1608-1661) The Holy State and the Profane State (1642) Bk. III, ch. viii, "Of Anger"
Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.  Clarendon
Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.  G. S. Hillard
Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.  Bulwer
Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just what it does cruelly.  St. Gregory the Great
Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.  Seneca
Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.  Seneca
Anybody can become angry - that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.  Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics.
Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.  Quarles
Can heavenly minds yield to such rage? Virgil [Publius Virgilius Maro] Aeneid, I, 11
Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.  Marcus Antoninus
Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.  Shenstone
Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to be angry and sin not.  Lymann Abbott
Every great sin ought to rouse a great anger. Mob law is better than no law at all. A community which rises in its wrath to punish with misdirected anger a great wrong is in a healthier moral condition than a community which looks upon its perpetration with apathy and unconcern.  Lymann Abbott
For then, in wrath, the Olympian Pericles Thundered and lightened, and confounded Hellas Enacting laws which ran like drinking songs.  Aristophanes Acharnians, 530
He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.  Plato
He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.  Secker
He used to raise a storm in a teapot.  Marcus Tullius Cicero De Legibus, III, 16
He who can suppress a moment's anger may prevent a day of sorrow.  To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is still better Tyron Edwards
If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wring, but the coals are.  H. W. Beecher
In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.  Thomas Calyle
Keep cool and you command everybody.  St. Just
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrong.  Charlotte Bront'eb
Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.  Alger
Never forget what a man has said to you when he was angry. If he has charged you with anything, you better look it up.  H. W. Beecher
Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.  Henry Ward Beecher
Nothing is improved by anger, unless it be the arch of a cat's back. A man with his back up is spoiling his figure. People look none the handsomer for being red in the face. It takes a great deal out of a man to get into a towering rage; it is almost as unhealthy as having a fit.  Whatever wrong I suffer, it can not do me half so much hurt as being angry about it.  Charles H. Spurgeon
Sweeter it [wrath] is by far than the honeycomb dripping with sweetness, and spreads through the hearts of men.  Homer The Iliad, XVIII, 109
Temperate anger well becomes the wise.  Philemon
The broad general rule is that a man is about as big as the things that make him angry.  Author Unknown
The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which ofttimes ends in choler, bitterness, and morosity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.  Plutarch
The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.  Chinese Proverb
The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.  Walter Savage Landor
The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves. We injure our own cause in the opinion of the world when we too passionately defend it.  Colton
The world belongs to the enthusiast who keeps cool.  William McFee
There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.  John Webster
To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.  Watts
To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.  Pope
To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is still better.  Tyron Edwards
Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.  Boyes
We are quick to flare up, we races of men on the earth.  Homer The Odyssey, VII, 307
Whate'er's begun in anger ends in shame.  Benjamin Franklin
When anger rises, think of the consequences.  Confucius
When anger rushes, unrestrained, to action, like a hot steed, it stumbles in its way.  Richard Savage
When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, count a hundred.  Thomas Jefferson
When one is in a good sound rage, it is astonishing how calm one can be.  Bulwer
When passion is on the throne reason is out of doors.  M. Henry
When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.  Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
When wrathful words arise, a closed mouth is soothing.  Irish Proverb
Wise anger is like fire from the flint; there is a great ado to bring it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.  M. Henry
And for these also, Dear Lord, the humble beasts, who with us bear the burden and heat of the day, and offer their guileless lives for the well-being of their country, we supplicate Thy great tenderness of heart, for Thou hast promised to save both man and beast. And great is Thy loving kindness, Oh Master, Savior of the world.  Attributed to St. Basil of Caesarea, prayer, A.D. 370. - The Washington Daily News, April 16, 1971, p. 23. Unverified.
It has been related that dogs drink at the river Nile running along, that they may not be seized by the crocodiles.  Phaedrus Fables, I, 25, 3
Money will buy a pretty good dog but it won't buy the wag of his tail.  Josh Billings
No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.  Abraham Lincoln
The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved in amber, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar.  Martial [Marcus Valerius Martialis] Epigrams, IV, 32
To my way of thinking there's something wrong, or missing, with any person who hasn't got a soft spot in their heart for an animal of some kind. With most folks the dog stands highest as man's friend, then comes the horse, with others the cat is liked best as a pet, or a monkey is fussed over; but whatever kind of animal it is a person likes, it's all hunkydory so long as there's a place in the heart for one or a few of them.  Will James, Smoky, the Cow Horse, Preface, p. v (1929).
All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation.  Feltham
All things that are, are with more spirit chased than enjoyed.  Giles
Among so many sad realities we can but ill endure to rob anticipation of its pleasant visions.  Giles
Be not looking for evil. Often thou drainest the gall of fear while evil is passing by thy dwelling.  Tupper
Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.  Johnson
He who foresees calamities, suffers them twice over.  Porteous
In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation.  South
It has been well said that no man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear.  G. MacDonald
It is worse to apprehend then to suffer.  Bruyere
Nothing is so good as it seems before-hand.  George Eliot
Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.  Seneca
Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.  Rochefoucauld
Sorrow itself is not so hard to bear as the thought of sorrow coming. Airy ghosts that work no harm do terrify us more than men in steel with bloody purposes.  T. B. Aldrich
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the anticipation of suffering.  Quintilian
The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasant than those crowned with fruition. In the first case we cook the dish to our own appetite; in the last case it is cooked for us.  Goldsmith
The joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be.  Charles Reade
The worst evils are those that never arrive.  To tremble before anticipated evils, is to bemoan what thou hast never lost.  Goethe
We often tremble at an empty terror, yet the false fancy brings a real misery.  Schiller
We part more easily with what we possess then with our expectations of what we hope for: expectation always goes beyond enjoyment.  Homer
Why need a man forestall his date of grief, and run to meet that he would most avoid? Milton
You're leaping over the hedge before you come to the stile.  Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote, Pt. I, III, 4, 117
All the transactions of the past differ very little from those of the present.  M. Antoninus
All things now held to be old were once new. What today we hold up by example, will rank hereafter as precedent.  Tacitus
Antiquity is enjoyed not by the ancients who lived in the infancy of things, but by us who live in their maturity.  Colton
Antiquity! - like its ruins better than its reconstructions.  Joubert
I do by no means advise you to throw away your time in ransacking, like a dull antiquarian, the minute and unimportant parts of remote and fabulous times. Let blockheads read, what blockheads wrote.  Earl of Chesterfield
It is one proof of a good education, and of a true refinement of feeling, to respect antiquity.  Mrs. Sigourney
The earliest and oldest and longest has still the mastery of us.  George Eliot
Those old ages are like the landscape that shows best in the purple distance, all verdant and smooth, and bathed in mellow light.  E. H. Chapin
Those we call the ancients were really new in everything.  Pascal
Time consecrates; and what is gray with age becomes religion.  Schiller
What subsists today by violence, continues tomorrow by acquiescence, and is perpetuated by tradition, till at last the hoary abuse shakes the gray hairs of antiquity at us, and gives itself out as the wisdom of ages.  Everett
When ancient opinions and rules of life are taken away, the loss cannot possibly be estimated. From that moment we have not compass to govern us, nor can we know distinctly to what port to steer.  Burke
An undivided heart which worships God alone, and trusts him as it should, is raised above anxiety for earthly wants.  Geikie
Anxiety is a word of unbelief or unreasoning dread. We have no right to allow it. Full faith in God puts it to rest.  Horace Bushnell
Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries. In a world where everything is doubtful, and where we may be disappointed, and be blessed in disappointment, why this restless stir and commotion of mind? Can it alter the cause, or unravel the mystery of human events? Blair
Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power. A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its best preventive and remedy.  Tyron Edwards
Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than be ruined by too confident security.  Burke
Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbors.  Rudyard Kipling
Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.  Benjamin Franklin
Don't be forecasting evil unless it is what you can guard against. Anxiety is good for nothing if we can't turn it into a defense.  Meyrick
He is well along the road to perfect manhood who does not allow the thousand little worries of like to embitter his temper, or disturb his equanimity.  Geikie
How much have cost us the evils that never happened! Thomas Jefferson
If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.  Elbert Hubbard
It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow that weigh a man down. For the needs of today we have corresponding strength given. For the morrow we are told to trust. It is not ours yet.  G. MacDonald
It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more on a man than he can bear. But worry is rust upon the blade. It is not movement that destroys the machinery, but the friction.  H. W. Beecher
Never meet trouble half-way.  John Ray
Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.  Anonymous
One of the most useless of all things is to take a deal of trouble in providing against dangers that never come. How many toil to lay up riches which they never enjoy; to provide for exigencies that never happen; to prevent troubles that never come; sacrificing present comfort and enjoyment in guarding against the wants of a period they may never live to see.  W. Jay
Sufficient to each day are the duties to be done and the trials to be endured. God never built a Christian strong enough to carry today's duties and tomorrow's anxieties piled on the top of them.  T. L. Cuyler
When we borrow trouble, and look forward into the future and see what storms are coming, and distress ourselves before they come, as to how we shall avert them if they ever do come, we lose our proper trustfulness in God. When we torment ourselves with imaginary dangers, or trials, or reverses, we have already parted with that perfect love which casteth out fear.  H. W. Beecher
Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.  F. H. Bradley
Worry not about the possible troubles of the future; for if they come, you are but anticipating and adding to their weight; and if they do not come, your worry is useless; and in either case it is weak and in vain, and a distrust of God's providence.  Tyron Edwards
Bad will be the day for every man when he becomes absolutely content with the life that he is living, with the thoughts that he is thinking, with the deeds that he is doing, when there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger, which he knows that he was meant and made to do, because he is still, in spite of all, the child of God.  Phillips Brooks
The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.  Dante Alighieri
The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.  Baron de Montesquieu
Apologies only account for the evil which they cannot alter.  Disraeli
Apology is only egotism wrong side out. Nine times out of ten the first thing a man's companion knows of his short-comings, is from his apology.  O. W. Holmes
I do not trouble my spirit to vindicate itself. I see the elementary laws never apologize.  Whitman
We seldom lose our faith by a blowout, usually is just a slow leak.  Author Unknown
A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. - Sound maxims are the germs of good; strongly imprinted on the memory they fortify and strengthen the will.  Joubert
Aphorisms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling.  R. W. Alger
Apothegms are in history, the same as pearls in the sand, or gold in the mine.  Erasmus
Apothegms are the wisdom of the past condensed for the instruction and guidance of the present.  Tyron Edwards
Apothegms to thinking minds are the seeds from which spring vast fields of new thought, that may be further cultivated, beautified, and enlarged.  Ramsey
Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms, and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.  Coleridge
He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into the short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.  Johnson
Nor do apothegms only serve for ornament and delight, but also for action and civil use, as being the edge tools of speech, which cut and penetrate the knots of business and affairs.  Bacon
Sensible men show their sense by saying much in few words. If noble actions are the substance of life, good sayings are its ornament and guide.  C. Simmons
The excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some useful truth in a few words.  Johnson
The short sayings of wise and good men are of great value, like the dust of gold, or the sparks of diamonds.  Tillotson
There are but few proverbial sayings that are not true, for they are all drawn from experience itself, which is the mother of all sciences.  Cervantes
Under the veil of these curious sentences are hid those germs of morals which the masters of philosophy have afterwards developed into so many volumes.  Plutarch
A fair exterior is a silent recommendation.  Publilius Syrus Maxim 267
A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought.  Bruyere
Appearances often are deceiving.  Aesop
Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man's task.  Epictetus Discourses, I, 27
Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.  La Fontaine
Do not hold as gold all that shines as gold.  Alain De Lille [Alanus De Insulis]
Do not judge from mere appearances; for the lift laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy. The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.  E. H. Chapin
Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.  Benjamin Franklin
Foolish men mistake transitory semblances for eternal fact, and go astray more and more.  Carlyle
Half the work that is done in this world is to make things appear what they are not.  E. R. Beadle
How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems.  Southey
Our purses shall be proud, our garments poor:	For 'tis the minds that makes the body rich;	And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds,	So honor peereth in the meanest habit.	William Shakespeare The Taming of the Shrew, IV, iii, 173
Remember two things: he's not half as smart as you think he is; secondly, he thinks you are twice as smart as you are.  David Swartz
Resemblance reproduces the formal aspect of objects, but neglects their spirit; truth shows the spirit and substance in like perfection. He who tries to transmit the spirit by means of the formal aspect and ends by merely obtaining the outward appearance, will produce a dead thing.  Ching Hao Notes on Brushwork
The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be.  Socrates
There are not greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy.  Seneca
Things are not always what they seem.  Phaedrus Fables, IV, 2, 5
A well governed appetite is a great part of liberty.  Seneca
Animals feed; man eats. Only the man of intellect and judgment knows how to eat.  Savarin
Choose rather to punish your appetites than to be punished by them.  Tyrius Maximus
For the sake of health, medicines are taken by weight and measure; so ought food to be, or by some similar rule.  Skelton
Good cheer is no hindrance to a good life.  Aristippus
Let not thy table exceed the fourth part of thy revenue: let thy provision be solid, and not far fetched, fuller of the substance than art: be wisely frugal in thy preparation, and freely cheerful in thy entertainment: if thy guests be right, it is enough; if not, it is too much: too much is a vanity; enough is a feast.  Quarles
Now good digestion wait on appetite, and health on both.  Shakespeare
Reason should direct, and appetite obey.  Cicero
Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance prevents from indulging to excess.  Rousseau
The lower your senses are kept, the better you may govern them. Appetite and reason are like two buckets - when one is up, the other is down. Of the two, I would rather have the reason-bucket uppermost.  Collier
There are so few that resist the allurements and luxuries of the table, that the usual civilities at a meal are very like being politely assisted to the grave.  N. P. Willis
There is no question but that these hungry populations no longer feel genuine appetite; they eat mechanically, as though eating were a duty.  Josue de Castro
A slowness to applaud betrays a cold temper or an envious spirit.  H. More
Applause is the spur of noble minds; the end and aim of weak ones.  Colton
Applause waits on success. The fickle multitude, like the light straw that floats on the stream, glide with the current still, and follow fortune.  Benjamin Franklin
Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.  Colton
Man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, and next to escape the censures of the world. If the last interfere with the first it should be entirely neglected. But if not, there cannot be a greater satisfaction to an honest mind than to see its own approbation seconded by the applause of the public.  Addison
Neither human applause nor human censure is to be taken as the test of truth; but either should set us upon testing ourselves.  Whately
O popular applause! What heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms! Cowper
Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain then the virtuous.  Bacon
When the million applaud you, seriously ask what harm you have done: when they censure you, what good.  Colton
A work of real merit finds favor at last.  A. B. Alcott
Appreciation, whether of nature, or books, or art, or men, depends very much on temperament. What is beauty or genius or greatness to one, is far from being so to another.  Tyron Edwards
Contemporaries appreciate the man rather than the merit; but posterity will regard the merit rather than the man.  Colton
Every man is valued in this world as he shows by his conduct that he wishes to be valued.  Bruyere
He is incapable of a truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.  Lavater
In an audience of rough people a generous sentiment always brings down the house. In the tumult of war both sides applaud a heroic deed.  T. W. Higginson
In proportion as our own mind is enlarged we discover a greater number of men of originality. Commonplace people see no difference between one man and another.  Pascal
It is with certain good qualities as with the senses; those who have them not can neither appreciate nor comprehend them in others.  Rochefoucauld
Next to invention is the power of interpreting invention: next to beauty the power of appreciating beauty.  Margaret Fuller
No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.  George Eliot
One of the Godlike things of this world is the veneration done to human worth by the hearts of men.  Carlyle
To feel exquisitely is the lot of very many; but to appreciate belongs to the few. Only one or two, here and there, have the blended passion and understanding which, in its essence, constitute worship.  C. Auchester
We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.  Hazlitt
The purpose of all war is peace.  Saint Augustine
As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascinations. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.  Oscar Wilde
Civil wars are the greatest of all evils.  Blaise Pascal
Child of God, therefore children of God, therefore brothers. All wars are civil wars.  Eric Gill
Because it brings the shattering of the peacetime illusion that events tomorrow will be as they are today, war can turn men to God. Because war brings suffering, it can turn men to God in repentance.  G.K. MacBrien
War is sweet to those who don't know it.  Erasmus
For a war to be just, three conditions are necessary: public authority, just cause, right motive. Saint Thomas Aquinas
Nobody has to do it, but anybody needs to help him, so somebody won't get blamed, causing everybody to suffer.   But if anybody helps nobody, he'll make a somebody that everybody knows. MCB
If Virtue and Knowledge are diffused among the people, the will never be enslaved.  This will be their great Security.  Samuel Adams
Anger is only one letter short of danger.
Learn from the the mistakes of others.  You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.
He who loses money, loses much	He who loses a friend, loses much more	He who loses faith, loses all.
Worry is a rocking chair that gives you somthing to do, but never gets you anywhere.  J. Jelinek
Fifty years ago people finished a day's work and needed rest.  Today, they need exercise.
If your mind should go blank, don't forget to turn off the sound.
Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish.  Push it, and it will go nowhere at all. Dwight D. Eisenhower
Only turkeys don't give thanks on thanksgiving.
Thankgiving is a day when one species stops gobbling and another starts gobbling.
By faith we can see the invisible, believe the incredible, and receive the impossible.  Egyptian Christian
We do not need more intellectual power, we need more moral power.  We do not need more knowledge, we need more character.  We do not need more government, we need more culture.  We do not need more law, we need more religion.  We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen ... If the foundation is firm, the superstructure will stand.  Calvin Coolidge
Most of the time we do not communicate, we just take turns at talking.  Rober Anthony
Its nice to be important, but its more important to be nice.
Sin adds to trouble, subtracts from blessings, multiplies emptiness, and divides our heart.
We must never undervalue any person. The workman loves not to have his work despised in his presence. Now God is present everywhere, and every person is his work.  St. Francois de Sales
We never know a greater character unless there is in ourselves something congenial to it.  Channing
We should allow other's excellences, to preserve a modest opinion of our own.  Issac Barrow
When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who is able to understand and admire it.  Joubert
Architecture has its political use; public buildings being the ornament of a country; it establishes a nation, draws people and commerce; makes the People love their native country, which passion is the original of all great actions in a Common-wealth architecture aims at eternity.  Sir Christopher Wren, "Of Architecture," Parentalia; or Memoirs of the Family of the Wrens, comp. by his son Christopher, Appendix, p. 351 (1750, reprinted 1965).
Architecture is a handmaid of devotion. A beautiful church is a sermon in stone and its spire a finger pointing to heaven.  Schaff
Architecture is frozen music.  Baronne de Stael-Holstein
Architecture is the art which so disposes and adorns the edifices raised by man, that the sight of them may contribute to his mental health, power, and pleasure.  Ruskin
Architecture is the printing press of all ages, and gives a history of the state of society in which the structure was erected, from the cromlachs of the Druids to the toyshops of bad taste. The Tower and Westminster Abbey are glorious pages in the history of time, and tell the story of an iron despotism, and of the cowardice of an unlimited power.  Lady Morgan
Architecture worth great attention. As we double our numbers every 20 years we must double our houses. Besides we build of such perishable materials that one half of our houses must be rebuilt in every space of 20 years. So that in that term, houses are to be built for three fourths of our inhabitants. It is then among the most important arts: and it is desireable to introduce taste into an art which shews so much.  Thomas Jefferson, hints to Americans travelling in Europe, letter to John Rutledge, Jr., June 19, 1788. - The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Julian P. Boyd, vol. 13, p. 269 (1956).
Bridges are America's cathedrals.  Author unknown.
Houses are built to live in, more than to look on; therefore let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had.  Bacon
If cities were built by the sound of music, then some edifices would appear to be constructed by grave, solemn tones, and others to have danced forth to light fantastic airs.  Hawthorne
In any and every case the site is the beginning of the building that aspires to architecture. And this is true whatever the site or the building may be.  Frank Lloyd Wright
The architecture of a nation is great only when it is as universal and established as its language, and when provincial differences are nothing more than so many dialects.  Ruskin
The land is the simplest form of architecture. Building upon the land is as natural to man as to other animals, birds or insects. In so far as he was more than an animal his building became what we call architecture. While he was true to earth his architecture was creative.  Frank Lloyd Wright
The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner.  The Bible, Psalms 118:22.
Weak arguments are often thrust before my path; but although they are most unsubstantial, it is not easy to destroy them. There is not a more difficult feat known than to cut through a cushion with a sword.  Whately
A knockdown argument: 'tis but a word and a blow.  John Dryden
A sure way of getting the last word in an argument is to say 'You're right.' Author Unknown
An argument needs no reason, nor a friendship.  Ibycus
An ill argument introduced with deference will procure more credit than the profoundest science with a rough, insolent, and noisy management.  Locke
Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as in books it is generally the worst sort of reading.  Swift
Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.  Herbert
Clear statement is argument.  W. G. T. Shedd
He that blows the coals in quarrels he has nothing to do with has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face.  Benjamin Franklin
He who establishes his argument by noise and command, shows that his reason is weak.  Montaigne
Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgement, or improve the heart.  Landor
It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.  Marcus Porcius Cato, The Elder From Plutarch, Lives, Cato, 8
It were endless to dispute upon everything that is disputable.  William Penn
Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.  Colton
Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.  Rufus Choate
Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.  Whately
Not to know me argues yourselves unknown.  John Milton Paradise Lost, IV, 830
Nothing is more certain than that much of the force as well as grace of arguments, as well as of instructions, depends on their conciseness.  Pope
People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.  G. K. Chesterton
Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic.  Tyron Edwards
Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long-bow; its force depends on the strength of the hand that draws it. - But argument is like an arrow from a cross-bow, which has equal force if drawn by a child or a man.  Boyle
The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathizes with their just feelings.  Coleridge
The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation; a feather and a guinea fall with equal velocity in a vacuum.  Colton
The way to convince another is to state your case moderately and accurately. Then scratch your head, or shake it a little and say that is the way it seems to you, but that of course you may be mistaken about it. This causes your listener to receive what you have to say, and as like as not turn about and try to convince you of it, since you are in doubt. But if you go at him in a tone of positiveness and arrogance, you only make an opponent of him.  Benjamin Franklin
There is no dispute managed without passion, and yet there is scarce a dispute worth a passion.  Sherlock
There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.  James Russell Lowell
When a man argues for victory and not for truth, he is sure of just one ally, that is the devil. Not the defeat of the intellect, but the acceptance of the heart is the only true object in fighting with the sword of the spirit.  G. MacDonald
Who overrefines his argument brings himself to grief.  Petrarch [Francesco Petrarca] To Laura in Life, canzone 11
Wise men argue causes; fools decide them.  Anarcharsis
Argument is the worst sort of conversation.  Jonathan Swift
How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms.  Aristotle
I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.  Oscar Wilde
I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.  Edward Gibbon
If you can't answer a man's argument, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.  Elbert Hubbard
It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.  Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais
People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.  Blaise Pascal
Protagoras it was who first left facts out of consideration and fastened his arguments on words. He it was who first invented the sort of argument which is called Socratic.  Diogenes Laertius
Silence is one of the hardest things to refute.  Josh Billings
The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.  Chinese Proverb
There is no arguing with him, for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it.  Oliver Goldsmith
When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.  Marcus Tullius Cicero
A social life that worships money or makes social distinction its aim, is, in spirit, an attempted aristocracy.  Among the masses, even in revolutions, aristocracy must ever exist. Destroy it in the nobility, and it becomes centered in the rich and powerful Houses of Commons. Pull them down, and it still survives in the master and foreman of the workshop. Guizot
Aristocracy has three successive ages: the age of superiorities, that of privileges, and that of vanities. Having passed out of the first, it degenerates in the second, and dies away the third.  Chateaubriand
I never could believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world, ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden.  Richard Rumbold
Armies, though always the supporters and tools of absolute power for the time being, are always its destroyers too, by frequently changing the hands in which they think proper to lodge it.  Earl of Chesterfield
The army is a good book in which to study human life. One learns there to put his hand to everything. The most delicate and rich are forced to see poverty and live with it; to understand distress; and to know how rapid and great are the revolutions and changes of life.  De Vigny
The army is a school where obedience is taught, and discipline is enforced; where bravery becomes a habit and morals too often are neglected; where chivalry is exalted, and religion undervalued; where the virtue is rather understood in the classic sense of fortitude and courage, than in the modern and Christian sense of true moral excellence.  Ladd
The best armor is to keep out of gunshot.  Bacon
Nothing is more hateful to a poor man than the purse-proud arrogance of the rich. But let the poor man become rich and he runs at once into the vice against which he so feelingly declaimed. There are strange contradictions in human character.  Cumberland
The arrogant man does but blast the blessings of life and swagger away his own enjoyments. To say nothing of the folly and injustice of such behavior, it is always the sign of a little and unbenevolent temper, having no more greatness in it than the swelling of the dropsy.  Collier
A man that has a taste of music, painting, or architecture, is like one that has another sense, when compared with such as have no relish of those arts.  Joseph Addison
A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.  Edmond de Goncourt
All great art is the expression of man's delight in God's work, not his own.  Ruskin
All that is good in art is the expression of one soul talking to another, and is precious according to the greatness of the soul that utters it.  Ruskin
Art and life ought to be hurriedly remarried and brought to live together.  Hugh Walpole
Art does not imitate nature, but founds itself on the study of nature - takes from nature the selections which best accord with its own intention, and then bestows on them that which nature does not posses, viz.: the mind and soul of man.  Bulwer
Art employs method for the symmetrical formation of beauty, as science employs it for the logical exposition of truth; but the mechanical process is, in the last, ever kept visibly distinct, while in the first it escapes from sight amid the shows of color and the shapes of grace.  Bulwer
Art happens - no hovel is safe from it, no Prince may depend upon it, the vastest intelligence cannot bring it about.  James McNeill Whistler
Art hath an enemy called Ignorance. Ben Jonson
Art is a creative effort of which the wellsprings lie in the spirit, and which brings us at once the most intimate self of the artist and the secret concurrences which he has perceived in things by means of a vision or intuition all his own, and not to be expressed in ideas and in words - expressible only in the work of art.  Jacques Maritain
Art is a quest for the useless.  Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880)
Art is either a revolutionist or a plagiarist.  Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)
Art is long, life short; judgment difficult, opportunity fleeting.  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
Art, as far as it has the ability, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master, so that art must be, as it were, a descendant of God.  Dante
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.  G. K. Chesterton
Artists are nearest God. Into their souls he breathers his life, and from their hands it comes in fair, articulate forms to bless the world.  J. G. Holland
Bad artists always admire each other's work.  Oscar Wilde
However skillful an artist may be, and however perfect his technique, if he unhappily has nothing to tell us, his work is valueless.  Jacques Maritain
I have a predilection for painting that lends joyousness to a wall.  Pierre Renoir
One picture is worth more than ten thousand words.  Chinese Proverb
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry painting that speaks.  Simonides
Practice and thought might gradually forge many an art.  Virgil [Publius Virgilius Maro] Georgics, I, 133
Since I have known God in a saving manner, painting, poetry, and music have had charms unknown to me before. I have either received what I suppose is a taste for them, or religion has refined my mind, and made it susceptible of new impressions from the sublime and beautiful. O, how religion secures the heightened enjoyment of those pleasures which keep so many from God by their being a source of pride.  Henry Martyn
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.  Aristotle
The artist ought no more to appear in his work than God in nature.  Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880)
The artistic representation of history is a more scientific and serious pursuit than the exact writing of history. For the art of letters goes to the heart of things, whereas the factual report merely collocates details.  Aristotle
The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people are satisfied with ornament.  Johann W. von Goethe
The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout man. A scoffing Raphael, or an irreverent Michael Angelo, is not conceivable.  Blackie
The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.  Goethe
The highest triumph of art, is the truest presentation of nature.  N. P. Willis
The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.  Quintilian
The mission of art is to represent nature; not to imitate her.  W. M. Hunt
The mother of the useful art, is necessity; that of the fine arts, is luxury. The former have intellect for their father; the latter, genius, which itself is a kind of luxury.  Schopenhauer
The names of great painters are like passing bells. In Velasquez you hear sounded the fall of Spain; in Titian, that of Venice; in Leonardo, that of Milan; in Raphael, that of Rome. And there is profound justice in this; for in proportion to the nobleness of power is the guilt of its use for purposes vain or vile; and hitherto the greater the art the more surely has it been used, and used solely, for the decoration of pride, or the provoking of sensuality.  Ruskin
The object of art is to crystallize emotion into thought, and then fix it in form.  Delsarte
The only artist who does not deserve respect is the one who works to please the public, for commercial success or for official success.  Jacques Maritain
The ordinary true, or purely real, cannot be the object of the arts. Illusion on a ground of truth, that is the secret of the fine arts.  Joubert
The painter is, as to the execution of his work, a mechanic; but as to his conception and spirit and design he is hardly below even the poet.  Schiller
The pride of the artisan in his art and its uses is pride in himself. It is in his skill and ability to make things as he wishes them to be that he rejoices.  George Santayana
The real truthfulness of all works of imagination, sculpture, painting, and written fiction, is so purely in the imagination, that the artist never seeks to represent positive truth, but the idealized image of truth.  Bulwer
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.  Michael Angelo
There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, a third imitates them.  Plato
There is no more potent antidote to low sensuality than admiration of the beautiful. All the higher arts of design are essentially chaste, without respect to the object. They purify the thoughts, as tragedy purifies the passions. Their accidental effects are not worth consideration; for there are souls to whom even a vestal is not holy.  Schlegel
There is nothing new in art except talent.  Anton Chekhov
To be artist and lover, that is the true goal, the only adequate objective, the divinely destined end for man.  Bernard Iddings Bell
True art is reverent imitation of God.  Tyron Edwards
Variety of uniformities makes complete beauty.  Sir Christopher Wren
Very sacred is the vocation of the artist, who has to do directly with the works of God, and interpret the teaching of creation to mankind. All honor to the man who treats it sacredly; who studies, as in God's presence, the thoughts of God which are expressed to him; and makes all things according to the pattern which he is ever ready to show to earnest and reverent genius on the mount.  J. Brown
What has reason to do with the art of painting? William Blake
When a work of art appears to be in advance of its period, it is really the period that has lagged behind the work of art.  Jean Cocteau
When one is painting one does not think.  Raphael Sanzio
Why is it that our modern world insists upon drawing such a very sharp line of demarcation between the arts and the crafts? In the days when the arts were really an integral part of people's daily lives, that line of demarcation did not exist. But today the artist lives on one side of the street and the craftsman lives on the other side and the two hardly speak to each other.  Hendrick Willem Van Loon
Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! - In the long way from the eye through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost! Lessing
Artifice is weak; it is the work of mere man, in the imbecility and self distrust of his mimic understanding.  Hare
The ordinary employment of artifice, is the mark of a petty mind; and it almost always happens that he who uses it to cover himself in one place, uncovers himself in another.  Rochefoucauld
I look forward to an America which will reward achievement in the arts as we reward achievement in business or statecraft. I look forward to an America which will steadily raise the standards of artistic accomplishment and which will steadily enlarge cultural opportunities for all of our citizens. And I look forward to an America which commands respect throughout the world not only for its strength but for its civilization as well.  President John F. Kennedy
There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts. The age of Pericles was also the age of Phidias. The age of Lorenzo de Medici was also the age of Leonardo da Vinci. The age of Elizabeth was also the age of Shakespeare. And the New Frontier for which I campaign in public life, can also be a New Frontier for American art.  Senator John F. Kennedy
To further the appreciation of culture among all the people, to increase respect for the creative individual, to widen participation by all the processes and fulfillments of art - this is one of the fascinating challenges of these days.  President John F. Kennedy,
I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to give grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.  Lavater
I recommend no sour ascetic life. I believe not only in the thorns on the rosebush, but in the roses which the thorns defend. Asceticism is the child of sensuality and superstition. She is the secret mother of many a secret sin. God, when he made man's body, did not give us a fibre too much, nor a passion too many.
 Theodore Parker
Three forms of asceticism have existed in this weak world. Religious asceticism, being the refusal of pleasure and knowledge for the sake, as supposed, of religion; seen chiefly in the middle ages. Military asceticism, being the refusal of pleasure and knowledge for the sake of power; seen chiefly in the early days of Sparta and Rome. And monetary asceticism, consisting in the refusal of pleasure and knowledge for the sake of money; seen in the present days of London and Manchester.  Ruskin
'Tis not what man does which exalts him, but what man would do! Browning
Asceticisms after the holy - the only aspirations in which the soul can be assured it will never meet with disappointment.  Maria McIntosh
Be always displeased with what thou art if thou desire to attain to what thou art not, for where thou hast pleased thyself, there thou abidest.  Quarles
God has never ceased to be the one true aim of all right human aspirations.  Vinet
It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks fly upward, unless he has brutified his nature and quenched the spirit of immortality which is his portion.  Southey
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.  George Eliot
Man can climb to the highest summits but he cannot dwell there long.  George Bernard Shaw
Man ought always to have something that he prefers to life; otherwise life itself will seem to him tiresome and void.  Seume
No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.  W. Blake
The desires and longings of man are vast as eternity, and they point him to it.  Tyron Edwards
The heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters. It is not sufficient for a kite's dinner, yet the whole world is not sufficient for it.  Quarles
There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves.  A. P. Stanley
There is not a heart but has its moments of longing, yearning for something better, nobler, holier than it know now.  H. W. Beecher
There is not sorrow I have thought more about than that - to love what is great, and try to reach it, and yet to fail.  George Eliot
We are not to make the ideas of contentment and aspiration quarrel, for God made them fast friends. A man may aspire, and yet be quite content until it is time to raise; and both flying and resting are but parts of one contentment. The very fruit of the gospel is aspiration. It is to the heart what spring is to the earth, making every root, and bud, and bough desire to be more.  H. W. Beecher
You cannot demonstrate an emotion or prove an aspiration.  John Morely
Better not be than nothing.  Confucius
He who soars not, suffers not by a fall.  Mencius
If you don't scale the mountain, you can't view the plain.  Lao Tse
What we truly and earnestly aspire to be; that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration; by changing their frame of mind; for the moment realizes itself.  Mrs. Jameson
Assertion, unsupported by fact, is nugatory. Surmise and general abuse, in however elegant language, ought not to pass for truth.  Junius
It is an impudent kind of sorcery to attempt to blind us with the smoke, without convincing us that the fire has existed.  Junius
Weigh not so much what men assert, as what they prove. Truth is simple and naked, and needs not invention to apparel her comeliness.  Sir P. Sidney
A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze.  Diogenes
Be very circumspect in the choice of thy company. In the society of thine equals thou shalt enjoy more pleasure; in the society of thy superiors thou shalt find more profit. To be the best in the company is the way to grow worse; the best means to grow better is to be the worst there.  Quarles
Choose the company of your superiors whenever you can have it; that is the right and true pride.  Earl of Chesterfield
Company, villainous company hath been the ruin of me.  Shakespeare
Evil communications corrupt good manner.  Menander
Frequent intercourse and intimate connection between two persons, make them so alike, that not only their dispositions are molded like each other, but their very faces and tones of voice contract a similarity.  Lavater
If you wish to be held in esteem, you must associate only with those who are estimable.  Bruyere
In all societies it is advisable to associate if possible with the highest; not that they are always the best, but because, if disgusted there, we can always descend; but if we begin with the lowest to ascend is impossible.  Colton
It is best to be with those in time, that we hope to be with in eternity.  Fuller
It is certain that either wise bearing or ignorant carriage is caught, as men take diseases, one of another; therefore let men take heed of their company.  Shakespeare
It is meet that noble minds keep ever with their likes; for who so firm that cannot be seduced.  Shakespeare
It is no small happiness to attend those from whom we may receive precepts and examples of virtue.  Bp. Hall.
It is only when men associate with the wicked with the desire and purpose of doing them good, that they can rely upon the protection of God to preserve them from contamination.  C. Hodge
No company is far preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of other than their virtues, as disease is more contagious than health.  Colton
No man can be provident of his time, who is not prudent in the choice of his company.  Jeremy Taylor
People will in a great degree, and not without reason, form their opinion of you by that they have of your friends, as, says the Spanish proverb, "Tell me with whom you live and I will tell you who you are." Those unacquainted with the world take pleasures in intimacy with great men; those who are wiser fear the consequences.  Horace
When one associates with vice, it is but one step from companionship to slavery.
You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.  Lavater
He whose heart is not excited on the spot which a martyr has sanctified by his sufferings, or at the grave of one who has greatly benefited mankind, must be more inferior to the multitude in his moral, than he possibly can be above them in his intellectual nature.  Southey
I have only to take up this or that to flood my soul with memories.  Madame Deluzy
That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force on the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer amid the ruins of Iona.  Johnson
There is no man who has not some interesting associations with particular scenes, or airs, or books, and who does not feel their beauty or sublimity enhanced to him by such connections.  Alison
Americans combine to give fetes, found seminaries, build churches, distribute books, and send missionaries to the antipodes. hospitals, prisons, and schools take shape in that way. Finally, if they want to proclaim a truth or propagate some feeling by the encouragement of a great example, they form an association. In every case, at the head of any new undertaking, where in France you would find the government or in England some territorial magnate, in the United States you are sure to find an association. I have come across several types of association in America of which, I confess, I had not previously the slightest conception, and I have often admired the extreme skill they show in proposing a common object for the exertions of very many and in inducing them voluntarily to pursue it.  Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, ed. J. P Mayer, trans. George Lawrence, vol. 2, part 2, chapter 5, pp. 513-14 (1969). Originally published in 1835-1840.
An undevout astronomer is mad.  Young
Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.  Plato
Astronomy is one of the sublimest fields of human investigation. The mind that grasps its facts and principles receives something of the enlargement and grandeur belonging to the science itself. It is a quickener of devotion.  Horace Mann
No one can contemplate the great facts of astronomy without feeling his own littleness and the wonderful sweep of the power and providence of God.  Tyron Edwards
The atheist is one of the most daring beings in creation - a condemner of God who explodes his laws by denying his existence.  John Foster
There are absolute atheists.  Absolute atheism is in no way a mere absence of belief in God. It is rather a refusal of God, a fight against God, a challenge to God.  Jacques Maritain
A little philosophy inclineth men's minds to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds to religion; for while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no further. - But when it beholdeth the chain of them, confederate and linked together it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.  Bacon
A traveller amid the scenery of the Alps, surrounded by the sublimest demonstrations of God's power, had the hardihood to write against his name, in an album kept for visitors, "An atheist." Another who followed, shocked and indignant at the inscription, wrote beneath it, "If an atheist, a fool; if not, a liar!" G. B. Cheever
An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.  Fulton J. Sheen
An irreligious man, a speculative or a practical atheist, is as a sovereign, who voluntarily takes off his crown and declares himself unworthy to reign.  Blackie
Atheism is a disease of the soul, before it becomes an error of the understanding.  Plato
Atheism is never the error of society, in any stage or circumstance whatever. - In the belief of a Deity savage and sage have alike agreed. - The great error has been, not the denial of one God, but the belief of many; but polytheism has been a popular and poetical, rather than a philosophical error.  Henry Fergus
Atheism is rather in the life than in the heart of man.  Bacon
Atheism is the death of hope, the suicide of the soul.	Atheism is the folly of the metaphysician, not the folly of human nature.  George Bancroft
Atheism, if it exists, is the result of ignorance and pride, of strong sense and feeble reason, of good eating and ill living. It is the plague of society, the corrupter of morals, and the underminer of property.  Jeremy Collier
Atheists put on a false courage in the midst of their darkness and misapprehensions, like children who when they fear to go in the dark, will sing or whistle to keep up their courage.  Pope
Few men are so obstinate in their atheism, that a pressing danger will not compel them to the acknowledgment of a divine power.  Plato
God never wrought miracles to convince atheism, because His ordinary works convince it.  Bacon
If a man of sober habits, moderate, chaste, and just in all his dealings should assert there is no God, he would at least speak without interested motives; but such a man is not to be found.  Bruyere
In agony or danger, no nature is atheist. The mind that knows not what to fly to, flies to God.  H. More
No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man. Life and death to him are haunted grounds, filled with goblin forms of vague and shadowy dread.  Mrs. Stowe
The atheist is one who fain would pull God from his throne, and in the place of heaven's eternal king set up the phantom chance.  Glynn
The footprint of the savage in the sand is sufficient to prove the presence of man to the atheist who will not recognize God though his hand is impressed on the entire universe.  Hugh Miller
The three great apostles of practical atheism that make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are health, wealth, and power.  Colton
There are innumerable souls that would resent the charge of the fool's atheism, yet daily deny God in very deed.  John Foster
There are no atheists in the foxholes of Bataan.  Douglas MacArthur
There are pseudo-atheists who believe that they believe in God (and who perhaps believe in Him in their brains) but who in reality deny his existence by each one of their deeds.  Jacques Maritain
To be an atheist requires an infinitely greater measure of faith than to receive all the great truths which atheism would deny.  Addison
Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph, make atheists of mankind.  Dryden
What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster? To see rare effects, and no cause; a motion, without a mover; a circle, without a centre; a time, without an eternity; a second, without a first: these are things so against philosophy and natural reason, that he must be a beast in understanding who can believe in them. The thing formed, says that nothing formed it; and that which is made, is, while that which made it is not! This folly is infinite.  Jeremy Taylor
Whoever considers the study of anatomy can never be an atheist.  Lord Herbert
I will not disgrace my sacred arms	Nor desert my comrade, wherever I am stationed.	 I will fight for things sacred And things profane.	 And both alone and with all to help me.	 I will transmit my fatherland not diminished But greater and better than before.	 I will obey the ruling magistrates Who rule reasonably And I will observe the established laws And whatever laws in the future May be reasonably established. If any person seek to overturn the laws, Both alone and with all to help me, I will oppose him.	 I will honor the religion of my fathers.	 I call to witness the Gods .	 The borders of my fatherland, The wheat, the barley, the vines, And the trees of the olive and the fig.	 Athenian Ephebic Oath
Attention makes the genius; all learning, fancy, science, and skill depend upon it. - Newton traced his great discoveries to it. - It builds bridges, opens new worlds, heals diseases, carries on the business of the world. - Without it taste is useless, and the beauties of literature unobserved.  Wilmott
Few things are impracticable in themselves: and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail of success.  Rochefoucauld
If I have made any improvement in the sciences, it is owing more to patient attention than to anything beside.  Sir Isaac Newton
If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides.  Thomas Reid
It is attention, more than any difference between minds and men. - In this is the source of poetic genius, and of the genius of discovery in science, - It was this that led Newton to the invention of fluxions, and the discovery of gravitation, and Harvey to find out the circulation of the blood, and Davy to those views which laid the foundation of modern chemistry.  Brodie
The power of applying attention, steady and undissipated, to a single object, is the sure mark of a superior genius.  Earl of Chesterfield
A self-satisfied, self-sufficient attitude amounts to nothing more than inefficiency.  Socrates
A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.  Nathaniel Hawthorne
Act as though you cannot fail but keep a humble spirit.  Author Unknown
Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.  Socrates
Boredom is a disease of the mind and psyche, an insidious disease. It not only takes the joy out of life, but the creativity as well. No one of God's children should ever be bored with life.  Author Unknown
Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.  Edwin Markham
Do not quarrel with your lot in life. Do not complain of its never-ceasing cares, its environment, the vexations you have to stand, the small and sordid souls you have to live and work with. Above all, do not resent temptation; do not be perplexed because it seems to thicken around you more and more, and ceases neither for effort nor for agony and prayer. That is your practice. That is the practice which God appoints you. And it is having its work in making you patient, and humble, and generous, and unselfish, and kind, and courteous.  Henry Drummond
Don't worry if your job is small and your rewards few. Remember that the mighty oak was once a nut like you.  Author Unknown
Even the Emperor has straw-sandaled relatives.  Confucius
He who renounces fame has no sorrow.  Lao Tse
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I have lived long enough to be battered by the realities of life and not too long to be downed by them.  John Mason Brown
I love the man who can smile in trouble, and who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection.  Thomas Paine
I never think about the past, only about the present and the future, and I always conceive of myself as growing. I have never had one second of boredom since I was born.  Mary Martin
If Heaven wants to rain, or your mother to marry again, nothing can prevent them.  Mencius
If the world despises you because you do not follow its ways, pay no heed to it. But be sure your way is right.  Author Unknown
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance to be a prophet.  Isaac Bashevis Singer
If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you'll die a lot of times.  Dean Smith
Impossible is not a French word. It is a word fit only for the dictionary of fools.  Napoleon Bonaparte
In every block of marble I see a statue, see it as plainly as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect in attitude and action. I have only to hew away the rough walls to reveal it to other eyes as mine already see it.  Michelangelo
Instead of 'have a good day' - ' make it a good day.' Author Unknown
Into each life some rain must fall.  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.  Sister Kenney
It's not true that nice guys finish last - Nice guys are winners before the game even starts.  Addison Walker
Look for the best, prepare for the worst, and take what comes.  Author Unknown
Lord help me to remember that nothings going to happen to me today that you and I together can't handle.  Morning Prayer
Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men.  Benjamin Disraeli
No great scoundrel is ever uninteresting.  Murray Kempton
Nothing can stop people with the right attitudes from achieving their goals.  Author Unknown
Nourish a sick, but never an idle, servant.  Lao Tse
One actor cannot make a play.  Lao Tse
One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few and they are more beautiful if they are a few.  Anne Morrow Lindbergh
One place where you're sure to find the perfect driver is in the back seat.  Homer Phillips
One's outlook is a large part of one's virtue.  Alcott
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.  Henry Ward Beecher
The doctor knows what his trained eyes see - And he says it's the last of the ninth for me. So one more thing while the clouds loom dark and then I must leave this noisy park.  Author Unknown
The greatest discovery of my generation is that you can change your circumstances by changing your attitudes of mind.  William James
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.  Henry David Thoreau
The most vital thing in a man's life is his mental attitude.  Author Unknown
The only difference between a rut and a grave is that one is just a little deeper than the other.  Author Unknown
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sail.  William Arthur Ward
There is no such thing in human existence as being so high you're not responsible to anybody.  Lawrence A. Appley
There is nothing impossible to him who will try.  Alexander the Great
Those who have free seats at the play hiss first.  Lao Tse
Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.  Author Unknown
To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.  Oliver Wendell Holmes
Water can both sustain and engulf a ship.  Confucius
What we all tend to complain about most in other people are those things we don't like about ourselves.  William Wharton
When life seems just a dreary grind; and things seem fated to annoy; say something nice to someone else and watch the world light up with joy.  Author Unknown
Whether zeal or moderation be the point we aim at, let us keep the fire out of the one, and the frost out of the other.  Joseph Addison
Your attitude is contagious, unless you have a good time talking, your audience won't have a good time listening.  Author Unknown
He who proposes to be an author should first be a student.  John Dryden
The author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as the mother who talks about her own children.  Benjamin Disraeli
The most original authors are not so because they advance what is new, but because they put what they have to say as if it had never been said before.  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, and familiar things new.  Samuel Johnson
What a blessed thing it is that nature, when she invented manufactured and patented her authors, contrive to make critics out of the chips that were left! Oliver Wendell Holmes
All authority belongs to the people.  Thomas Jefferson
He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson of statecraft.  J. R. Lowell
Man, proud man! dressed in a little brief authority, plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven as make the angels weep.  Shakespeare
Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominance.  Addison
 Nothing more impairs authority than a too frequent or indiscreet use of it. If thunder itself was to be continual, it would excite no more terror than the noise of a mill.	Nothing sooner overthrows a weak head than opinion of authority; like too strong liquor for a frail glass.  Sir P. Sidney
There are four qualities essential to royal authority: first, the royal authority is sacred; second, it is paternal; third, it is absolute; fourth, it is submitted to reason.  Jacques Benigne Bossuet
They that govern make least noise, as they that row the barge do work and puff and sweat, while he that governs sits quietly at the stern, and scarce is seen to stir.  John Selden
Who dares affirm the absurdity that man can originate for himself a priesthood which God shall honor and respect.  Author Unknown
I have heard that nothing gives an author so great pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors.  Benjamin Franklin
A great writer is the friend and benefactor of his readers.  Macaulay
Authorship is a royal priesthood; but woe to him who rashly lays unhallowed hands on the ark or altar, professing a zeal for the welfare of the race, only to secure his own selfish ends.  Horace Greeley
Authorship, according to the spirit in which it is pursued, is an infancy a pastime, a labor, a handicraft, an art, a science, or a virtue.  Schlegel
Clear writers, like clear fountains, do not seem so deep as they are; the turbid seem the most profound.  Landor
Every author in some degree portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.  Goethe
It is doubtful whether mankind are most indebted to those who like Bacon and Butler dig the gold from the mine of literature, or to those who, like Paley, purify it, stamp it, fix its real value, and give it currency and utility.  Colton
It is quite as much of a trade to make a book, as to make a clock. It requires more than mere genius to be an author.  Bruyere
Never write on a subject without first having read yourself full on it; and never read on a subject till you have thought yourself hungry on it.  Richter
Next to doing things that deserve to be written, nothing gets a man more credit, or gives him more pleasure than to write things that deserve to be read.  Earl of Chesterfield
No author is so poor that he cannot be of some service, if only as a witness of his time.  Fauchet
No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly; and this self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the mind.  Cervantes
The chief glory of a country, says Johnson, arises from its authors. But this is only when they are oracles of wisdom. Unless they teach virtue they are more worthy of a halter than of the laurel.  Jane Porter
There are three difficulties in authorship: - to write anything worth publishing - to find honest men to publish it - and to get sensible men to read it.  Colton
To write well is to think well, to feel well, and to render well; it is to possess at once intellect, soul, and taste.  Buffon
Writers are the main landmarks of the past.  Bulwer
It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.  John Stuart Mill
Automation: Lo! Men have become the tools of their tools.  Henry David Thoreau
A moral character is attached to autumnal scenes. The flowers fading like our hopes, the leaves falling like our years, the clouds fleeting like our illusions, the light diminishing like our intelligence, the sun growing colder like our affections, the rivers becoming frozen like our lives - all bear secret relations to our destinies.  Chateaubriand
Magnificent autumn! He comes not like a pilgrim, clad in russet weeds; not like a hermit, clad in gray; but like a warrior with the stain of blood on his brazen mail. His crimson scarf is rent; his scarlet banner dripping with gore; his step like flail on the threshing door.  Longfellow
The leaves in autumn do not change color from the blighting touch of frost, but from the process of natural decay. They fall when the fruit is ripened, and their work is done. And their splendid coloring is but their graceful and beautiful surrender of life when they have finished their summer offering of service to God and man. And one of the great lessons the fall of the leaf teaches, is this: Do your work well, and then be ready to depart when God shall call.  Tyron Edwards
When I warned them [the French] that Britain would fight on alone whatever they did, their generals told their Prime Minister and his divided Cabinet, "In three weeks England will have her neck wrung like a chicken." Some chicken! Some neck! Prime Minister Winston Churchill
Yesterday, December 7, 1941 - a date which will live in infamy - the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.  President Franklin D. Roosevelt
All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.  Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born.  Francis Fenelon
We are all apt to believe what the world believes about us.  George Eliot
To fret thy soul with crosses and with cares;	 To eat thy heart through comfortless despairs;	To fawn, to crouch, to wait, to ride, to run,	To spend, to give, to want, to be undone.	 Unhappy wight, born to disastrous end,	That doth his life in so long tendance spend.	 Edmund Spenser
As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.  Thomas A. Edison
It ain't no use putting up your umbrella till it rains.  Alice Hegan Rice
Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.  James Russell Lowell
No man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is the when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear. Never load yourselves so. If you find yourselves so loaded, at least remember this: It is your doing, not God's. He begs you to leave the future to Him, and mind the present.  George McDonald
Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.  Everett Hale
When we have nothing to worry about we are not doing much, and not doing much may supply us with plenty of future worries.  Chinese proverb
Worry is interest paid on trouble before it is due.  William Inge
It is only when a man begins to worship that a man begins to grow.  Calvin Coolidge
When you go to Church, you should actively seek something. You must not go like an empty bucket, waiting passively to be filled.  Kiis
Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us;	The beggar is taxed for a corner to die in,		The priest hath his fee who comes and shrives us,	We bargain for the graves we lie in;	At the Devil's booth are all things sold,	Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold;	For a cap and bells our lives we pay,	Bubbles we buy with a whole soul's tasking:	'T is heaven alone that is given away,	'T is only God may be had for the asking;	No price is set on the lavish summer;	June may be had by the poorest comer.	And what is so rare as a day in June?	Then, if ever, come perfect days;	Then Heaven tries the earth if it be in tune,	And over it softly her warm ear lays:		Whether we look, or whether we listen,	We hear life murmur, or see it glisten.	James Russell Lowell, "The Vision of Sir Launfal," 
Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it.  Publilius Syrus
When I was a child of seven years old, my friends, on a holiday, filled my pocket with coppers. I went directly to a shop where they sold toys for children; and, being charmed with the sound of a whistle, that I met by the way in the hands of another boy, I voluntarily offered and gave all my money for one. I then came home, and went whistling all over the house, much pleased with my whistle, but disturbing all the family. My brothers, and sisters, and cousins, understanding the bargain I had made, told me I had given four times as much for it as it was worth; put me in mind what good things I might have bought with the rest of the money; and laughed at me so much for my folly, that I cried with vexation; and the reflection gave me more chagrin than the whistle gave me pleasure. This however was afterwards of use to me, the impression continuing on my mind; so that often, when I was tempted to buy some unnecessary thing, I said to myself, Don't give too much for the whistle; and I saved my money.  Benjamin Franklin
"I write this in prison, expecting tomorrow to recieve sentence of death, full of hope in God that I shall not swerve from the truth." Urged to recant at the stake - "In the truth of that gospel which hitherto I have written, taught and preached, I now joyfully die." "Kyrie Eleison." John Huss
A litterateur is not a confectioner, not a dealer in cosmetics, not an entertainer. He is just like an ordinary reporter. What would you say if a newspaper reporter, because of his fastidiousness or from a wish to give pleasure to his readers, were to describe only honest mayors, high-minded ladies, and virtuous railroad contractors.  Anton Chekhov
Against the disease of writing one must take special precautions, since it is a dangerous and contagious disease.  Peter Abelard
An inveterate and incurable itch for writing besets many, and grows old in their sick hearts.  Decimus Junius Juvenal
Another iron door, on which was writ,	 Be not too bold.  Edmund Spenser
Had not almost every man suffered by the Press, or were not the tyranny thereof become universal, I had not wanted reason for complaint.  Thomas Browne
He was the author, our hand finished it.  Phaedrus
Here halt, I pray you, make a little stay.	O wayfarer, to read what I have writ,	And know by my fate what thy fate shall be.	What thou art now, so shall thou be.	The world's delight I followed with a heart	Unsatisfied: ashes am I, and dust.	Alcuin	His Own Epitaph
I am more or less familiar with the works of the members of this Institute. I have worked in the same field. I have felt that quick comradeship of letters which is a very real comradeship, because it is a comradeship of thought and of principle.  Woodrow Wilson, "That Quick Comradeship of Letters" 
If I let my fingers wander idly over the keys of a typewriter it might happen that my screed made an intelligible sentence. If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters they might write all the books in the British Museum.  Arthur S. Eddington, The Nature of the Physical World
If there is ever an amelioration of the condition of mankind, philosophers, theologians, legislators, politicians and moralists will find that the regulation of the press is the most difficult, dangerous and important problem they have to resolve. Mankind cannot now be governed without it, nor at present with it.  John Adams
If you steal from one author, it's plagiarism. If you steal from two, it's research.  Wilson Mizner
Journalism has already come to be the first power in the land.  Samuel Bowles
Fine writers should split hairs together, and sit side by side, like friendly apes, to pick the fleas from each other's fur.  Logan Pearsall Smith, "Afterthoughts"
That historians should give their own country a break, I grant you; but not so as to state things contrary to fact. For there are plenty of mistakes made by writers out of ignorance, and which any man finds it difficult to avoid. But if we knowingly write what is false, whether for the sake of our country or our friends or just to be pleasant, what difference is there between us and hack-writers? Readers should be very attentive to and critical of historians, and they in turn should be constantly on their guard.  Polybius
The imaginative artist willy-nilly influences his time. If he understands his responsibility and acts on it - taking the art seriously always, himself never quite - he can make a contribution equal to, if different from, that of the scientist, the politician, and the jurist. The anarchic artist so much in vogue now - asserting with vehemence and violence that he writes only for himself, grubbing in the worst seams of life - can do damage. But he can also be so useful in breaking up obsolete molds, exposing shams, and crying out the truth, that the broadest freedom of art seems to me necessary to a country worth living in.  Herman Wouk
The original style is not the style which never borrows of any one, but that which no other person is capable of reproducing.  Francois Rene de Chateaubriand, The Genius of Christianity	 This sentence has also been translated as: "The original writer is not he who refrains from imitating others, but he who can be imitated by none." - The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, 3d ed., p. 141 (1979).
The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.  Blaise Pascal, Pensees, The Provincial Letters
There is nothing to write about, you say. Well then, write and let me know just this - that there is nothing to write about; or tell me in the good old style if you are well. That's right. I am quite well.  Pliny the Younger
To a chemist nothing on earth is unclean. A writer must be as objective as a chemist; he must abandon the subjective line; he must know that dung-heaps play a very respectable part in a landscape, and that evil passions are as inherent in life as good ones.  Anton Chekhov
When that passage was written only God and Robert Browning understood it. Now only God understands it.  Rudolf Besier, The Barretts of Wimpole Street
You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.  Martial [Marcus Valerius Martialis]
The players have often mentioned it as an honor to Shakespeare that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, "Would he had blotted a thousand." Ben Jonson
Anything that is written to please the author is worthless.  Blaise Pascal
He was one of these men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.  Benjamin Disraeli
I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.  Samuel Johnson
I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.  Henry David Thoreau
In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style.  Sydney Smith
Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.  Jules Renard
Read over your compositions and, when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.  Samuel Johnson
Sir, no man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.  Samuel Johnson
The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash.  Nathaniel Hawthorne
They lard their lean books with the fat of others' works Robert Burton
Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.  Edward Gibbon
Whenever I apply myself to writing, literature comes between us.  Jules Renard
Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.  Samuel Johnson
"Choose results over appearances, independence over obedience, the opinionated over the docile, one-sidedness over non-sidedness." Author Unknown	My reinterpretation: Choose results over impressions, independence over servitude (except with God), energy over deadness, and  conviction over apathy"
I don't want any yesmen around me. I want people who tell me the truth even though it costs them their jobs.  Samuel Goldwyn
Often do the spirits of great events stride on before the events, And in today already walks tomorrow.  Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A boy's will is the wind's will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation's young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.  Henry Ward Beecher
A youth, when at home, should be filial, and, abroad, respectful to his elders.  Confucius
As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.  Cicero
Be practical as well as generous in your ideals. Keep your eyes on the stars and keep your feet on the ground.  Theodore Roosevelt
Being young is a fault which improves daily.  Swedish Proverb
Bright youth passes swiftly as a thought.  Theognis
Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.  Theodore Roosevelt
Courage, hard work, self-mastery, and intelligent effort are all essential to successful life.  Theodore Roosevelt
Down the broad way do I go,	Young and unregretting,	Wrap me in my vices up,	Virtue all forgetting,	Greedier for all delight	Than heaven to enter in:	Since the soul in me is dead,	Better save the skin.	Archpoet Estuans Intrinsecus
Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, Are the children of Men.  Aristophanes
Good speed to your youthful valor, boy! So shall you scale the stars! Virgil [Publius Virgilius Maro]
I came to the place of my birth, and cried, "The friends of my youth, where are they?" And echo answered, "Where are they?" Arab saying
I want to see you game, boys, I want to see you brave and manly, and I also want to see you gentle and tender.  Theodore Roosevelt
I would not have borne this in my hot youth when Plancus was consul.  Horace [Quintas Horatius Flaccus]
It is very natural for young men to be vehement, acrimonious and severe. For as they seldom comprehend at once all the consequences of a position, or perceive the difficulties by which cooler and more experienced reasoners are restrained from confldence, they form their conclusions with great precipitance. Seeing nothing that can darken or embarrass the question, they expect to find their own opinion universally prevalent, and are inclined to impute uncertainty and hesitation to want of honesty, rather than of knowledge.  Samuel Johnson, The Rambler no. 121
New brooms sweep well.  Freidank
Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable, inasmuch as he has the fountain of reason in him not yet regulated.  Plato
That age is best which is the first When youth and blood are warmer.  Robert Herrick
That we may live to see England once more possess a free Monarchy and a privileged and prosperous People, is my Prayer; that these great consequences can only be brought about by the energy and devotion of our Youth is my persuasion. We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.  Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil, final sentence, p. 497 (1980). First published 1845.
The evening is come; rise up, ye youths. Vesper from Olympus now at last is just raising his long-looked-for light.  Gaius Valerius Catullus
The greatest reverence is due the young.  Decimus Junius Juvenal
The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.  Woodrow Wilson
The strength of a nation is in its youth.  Saying on Swedish School
The young leading the young, is like the blind leading the blind; "they will both fall into the ditch." Lord Chesterfield In a later letter to his son, January 15, 1753, Lord Chesterfield remarked that "Young men are as apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are to think themselves sober enough." - Letters, vol. 5, pp. 1994-95.
The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.  Henry David Thoreau
Thou know'st the o'er-eager vehemence of youth, How quick in temper, and in judgement weak.  Homer, The Iliad
Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.  Oliver Wendell Holmes
Toll me what are the prevailing sentiments that occupy the minds of your young men, and I will tell you what is to be the character of the next generation.  Attributed to Edmund Burke
Twenty to twenty-five! These are the years! Don't be content with things as they are.  Don't take No for an answer. Never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes; but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was made to be wooed and won by youth. She has lived and thrived only by repeated subjugations.  Winston Churchill, A Boving Commission, chapter 4, p. 60 (1930).
We have all seen with a sense of nausea the abject, squalid, shameless avowal made in the Oxford Union. We are told that we ought not to treat it seriously. The Times talked of "the children's hour." I disagree. It is a very disquieting and disgusting symptom. One can almost feel the curl of contempt upon the lips of the manhood of Germany, Italy, and France when they read the message sent out by Oxford University in the name of Young England.	  Let them be assured that it is not the last word. But before they blame, as blame they should, these callow ill-tutored youths, they must be sure that they have not been set a bad example by people much older and much higher up.  Winston Churchill, extract of address, Anti-Socialist and Anti-Communist Union meeting
You are young at any age if you are planning for tomorrow.  The Sword of the Lord
Young men are fitter to invent, than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and fitter for new projects than for settled business.  Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold; stir more than they can quiet; fly to the end, without consideration of the means and degrees; pursue some few principles which they have chanced upon absurdly; care not to innovate, which draws unknown inconveniences; use extreme remedies at first; and that, which doubleth all errors, will not acknowledge or retract them, like an unruly horse, that will neither stop nor turn. Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.  Francis Bacon, "Of Youth and Age," 
Youth is not a time of life - it is a state of mind. It is not a matter of red cheeks, red lips and supple knees. It is a temper of the will; a quality of the imagination; a vigor of the emotions; it is a freshness of the deep springs of life. Youth means a tempermental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over a life of ease. This often exists in a man of fifty, more than in a boy of twenty. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years; people grow old by deserting their ideals. 	Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, doubt, self-distrust, fear and despair - these are the long, long years that bow the head and turn the growing spir it back to dust.     Whether seventy or sixteen, there is in every being's heart a love of wonder; the sweet amazement at the stars and starlike things and thoughts; the undaunted challenge of events, the unfailing childlike appetite for what comes next, and the joy in the game of life.  You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confldence, as old as your fear, as young as your hope, as old as your despair.     In the central place of your he art there is a wireless station. So long as it receives messages of beauty, hope , cheer, grandeur, courage, and power from the earth, from men and from the Infinite - so long are you young. When the wires are all down and the central places of your heart are covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then are you grown old, indeed! Samuel Ullman, "Youth." The oft-quoted "you are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt,"
 Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the Infinite, so long are you young.	General Douglas MacArthur quoted the entire poem without attribution on his seventy-fifth birthday
Youth is not a time of life - it is a state of mind. It is not a matter of ripe cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotion; it is a freshness of the deep springs of life. Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over love of ease. This often exists in a man of fifty, more than in a boy of twenty. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years; people grow old only by deserting their ideals.  Author Unknown
All true zeal for God is a zeal less for love, mercy and goodness.  James Thompson
I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing.  Oliver Goldsmith
Give God what's right - not what's left.
Man's way leads to a hopeless end - God's way leads to an endless hope.
A lot of kneeling will keep you in good standing.
He who kneels before God can stand before anyone.
In the sentence of life, the devil may be a comma - but never let him be the period.
Don't put a question mark where God puts a period.
Are you wrinkled with burden? Come to the church for a face-lift.
When praying, don't give God instructions -- just report for duty.
Don't wait for six strong men to take you to church.
We don't change God's message - His message changes us.
The church is prayer-conditioned.
When God ordains, He sustains.
WARNING: Exposure to the Son may prevent burning.
Plan ahead - It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.
Most people want to serve God, but only in an advisory position.
Suffering from truth decay? Brush up on your Bible.
Exercise daily - walk with the Lord.
Never give the devil a ride - he will always want to drive.
Nothing else ruins the truth like stretching it.
Compassion is difficult to give away because it keeps coming back.
He who angers you controls you.
Worry is the darkroom in which negatives can develop.
Give Satan an inch and he'll be a ruler.
Be ye fishers of men - you catch them and He'll clean them.
God doesn't call the qualified - He qualifies the called.
Read the Bible - It will scare the hell out of you.
Worry is a darkroom where negatives develop.
Be careful of anger - it is one letter away from danger.
You only love Jesus as much as the person you love the least.
If men are so wicked with religion, what would they be without it?  Benjamin Franklin (Think of Hitler, Moa, Pol Pot, Stalin)
There is no traffic jam on the extra mile.
Whether to be a better person, or a bitter person: focus either 'E'veryone instead of the 'I'.  Matt Baker
God doesn't believe in atheists.
Children are hereditary.  Think of it, you wouldn't be here if your parents weren't.
It is one of the worst effects of prosperity that it makes a man a vortex instead of a fountain, so that instead of throwing out, he learns only to draw in.  H. W. Beecher
Poverty wants some things, luxury many, avarice all things.  Cowley
Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingles with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.  Seneca
The avaricious man is like the barren sandy ground of the desert which sucks in all the rain and dew with greediness, but yields no fruitful herbs or plants for the benefit of others.  Zeno
The lust of avarice has to totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them, than they to possess their wealth.  Pliny
The lust of gold, unfeeling and remorseless, the last corruption of degenerate man.  Johnson
We are but stewards of what we falsely call our own; yet avarice is so insatiable that it is not in the power of abundance to content it.  Seneca
A bird is an instrument working according to mathematical law, which instrument it is within the capacity of man to reproduce with all its movements.  Leonardo Da Vinci
All except very short distance, high class, passenger travel will be by air in the days to come.  Anthony H. G. Fokker
For I dipt into the future far as human eye can see,	Saw the vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be;	Saw the heavens filled with commerce, argosies of magic sails,	Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales;	Heard the heavens filled with shouting, and there rained a ghastly dew	From the nations' airy navies, grappling in the central blue.	Tennyson
An awkward man never does justice to himself; to his intelligence, to his intentions, or to his actual merit. A fine person, or a beauteous face are in vain without the grace of department.  Churchill
Awkwardness is a more real disadvantage than it is generally thought to be: it often occasions ridicule, and always lessens dignity.  Earl of Chesterfield
Fire and sword are but slow engines of destruction in comparison with the babbler.  Steele
Talkers are no good doers, be assured. We go to use our hands and not our tongues.  Shakespeare
Of all the joys that lighten suffering earth, what joy is welcomed like a new-born child?	A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for innocence on earth, a link between angels and men.  Tupper
A rose with all its sweetest leaves yet folded.  Byron
A sweet new blossom of humanity, fresh fallen from God's own home, to flower on earth.  Massey
Could we understand half what mothers say and do to us when infants, we should be filled with such conceit of our own importance as would make us insupportable through life. - Happy the child whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.  Hare
Good Christian people, here is for you an inestimable loan. Take all heed thereof, and in all carefulness employ it. With high recompense, or else with heavy penalty, will it one day be required back.  Carlyle
Some wonder that children should be given to young mothers. But what instruction does the babe bring to the mother! She learns patience, self-control, endurance; her very arm grows strong so that she holds the dear burden longer than the father can.  T. W. Higginson
The coarsest father gains a new impulse to labor from the moment of his baby's birth. Every stroke he strikes is for his child. New social aims, and new moral motives come vaguely up to him.  T. W. Higginson
A bachelor's life is a splendid breakfast; a tolerably flat dinner; and a most miserable supper.  Author Unknown
Have a care where there is more sail than ballast.  William Penn
A well composed song or ballad strikes the mind, and softens the feelings, and produces a greater effect than a moral work, which convinces our reason but does not warm our feelings or effect the slightest alteration of our habits.  Napoleon
Ballads and popular songs are both the cause and effect of general morals; they are first formed, and then re-act. In both points of view they are an index of public morals.  H. Martineau
Ballads are the gupsy children of song, born under green hedge-rows, in the leafy lanes and by-paths of literature, in the genial summer time.  Longfellow
Ballads are the vocal portraits of the national mind.  Lamb
Let me write the ballads of a nation, and I care not who make its laws.  Fletcher
There are many things which one gains and the other loses; but if it is essential to any transaction that only one side shall gain, the thing is not of God.  G. MacDonald
A dear bargain is always disagreeable particularly as it is a reflection on the buyer's judgment.	 Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.	Whenever you buy or sell, let or hire, make a definite bargain, and never trust to the flattering lie, "We shan't disagree about trifles."	G. MacDonald
Baseness of character or conduct not only sears the conscience, but deranges the intellect. Right conduct is connected with right views of truth.  Colton
Every base occupation makes one sharp in its practice, and dull in every other.  Sir P. Sidney
There is a law of forces which hinders bodies from a sinking beyond a certain depth in the sea; but in the ocean of baseness the deeper we get the easier the sinking.  J. R. Lowell
Bashfulness is a great hindrance to a man, both in uttering his sentiments and in understanding what is proposed to him; it is therefore good to press forward with discretion, both in discourse and company of the better sort.  Bacon
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.  Aristotle
Bashfulness is more frequently connected with good sense than with over-assurance; and impudence, on the other hand, is often the effect of downright stupidity.  Shenstone
Bashfulness may sometimes exclude pleasure, but seldom opens any avenue to sorrow or remorse.  Johnson
Conceit not so high an opinion of any one as to be bashful and impotent in their presence.  Fuller
There are two kinds of bashfulness; one, the awkwardness of the body, which a few steps into the world will convert into the pertness of a coxcomb; the other, a consciousness, which the most dilicate feelings produce, and the most extensive knowledge cannot always remove.  Mackenzie
We do not accept as genuine the person not characterized by this blushing bashfulness, this youthfulness of heart, this sensibility to the sentiment of sauvity and self-respect. Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds. None are truly great without this ornament.  A. B. Alcott
We must prune it with care, so as only to remove the redundant branches, and not injure the stem, which has its root in a generous sensitiveness to shame.  Plutarch
When in the chronicle of wasted time	I see descriptions of the fairest wights,	 And beauty making beautiful old rime,	 In praise of ladies dead and lovely knights,	 Then, in the blazon of sweet beauty's best,	 Of hand, of foot, of lip, of eye, of brow,	 I see their antique pen would have express'd	 Even such a beauty as you master now.	  William Shakespeare
Beauty stands in the admiration only of weak minds	 Led captive.	  John Milton
A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.  Richter
After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without; and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty.  Washington Irving
All are most beautiful, of a thousand shapes, and all accessible, and filled with trees of a thousand kinds and tall, and they seem to touch the sky; and I am told that they never lose their foliage, which I can believe, for I saw them as green and beautiful as they are in Spain.  Christopher Columbus
All beauty does not inspire love; some beauties please the sign without captivating the affections.  Cervantes
All orators are dumb when beauty pleadeth.  William Shakespeare
An appearance of delicacy, and even of fragility, is almost essential to beauty.  Burke
Beauty and folly are generally companions.  Baltasar Gracian
Beauty and wisdom are rarely conjoined.  Gaius Petronius [Petronius Arbiter]
Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold or silver, it attracts with tenfold power.  Richter
Beauty hath so many charms one knows not how to speak against it; and when a graceful figure is the habitation of a virtuous soul - when the beauty of the face speaks out the modesty and humility of the mind, it raises our thoughts up to the great Creator; but after all, beauty, like truth, is never so glorious as when it goes the plainest.  Sterne
Beauty in a modest woman is like fire at a distance, or a sharp sword beyond reach. - The one does not burn, or the other wound those that come not too near them.  Cervantes
Beauty is a gift of God.  Aristotle
Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.  Gibbon
Beauty is as summer fruits which are easy to corrupt and cannot last; and for the most part it makes a dissolute youth, and an age a little out of countenance; but if it light well, it makes virtues shine and vice blush.  Bacon
Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good; a shining gloss that fadeth suddenly; a flower that dies when it begins to bud; a doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower, lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour.  Shakespeare
Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. - Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.  Bancroft
Beauty is like an almanack: if it last a year it is well.  Thomas Adams
Beauty is often worse than wine; intoxicating both the holder and beholder.  Zimmermann
Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
Beauty is the gift of God.  Aristotle
Beauty of form affects the mind, but then it must not be the mere shell that we admire, but the thought that this shell is only the beautiful case adjusted to the shape and value of a still more beautiful pearl within. - The perfection of outward loveliness is the soul shining through its crystalline covering.  Jane Porter
Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is as a flower without perfume.  From the French
Beauty - the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.  Leon Battista Alberti
Beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may.  Plato
By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.  Howard
Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism.  St. Pierre
Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.  Cecil
Gather ye rose-buds while ye may,	Old Time is still a-flying:	And this same flower that smiles today,	Tomorrow will be dying.	Robert Herrick
Heaven and Earth never agreed better to frame a place for man's habitation; were it fully manured and inhabited by industrious people. Here are mountaines, hills, plaines, valleyes, rivers, and brookes, all running most pleasantly into a faire Bay, compassed but for the mouth, with fruitfull and delightsome land.  Captain John Smith, description of countryside around Chesapeake Bay, 1606, The Generall Historie of Virginia, New England & The Summer Isles, vol. 2, pp. 44-45 (1907).
How goodness heightens beauty! Hannah More
How much wit, good-nature, indulgences, how many good offices and civilities, are required among friends to accomplish in some years what a lovely face or a fine hand does in a minute! Bruyere.
If either man or woman would realize the full power of personal beauty, it must be by cherishing noble thoughts and hopes and purposes; by having something to do and something to live for that is worthy of humanity, and which, by expanding the capacities of the soul, gives expansion and symmetry to the body which contains it.  Upham
If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty.  Benjamin Franklin
If the nose of Cleopatra had been a little shorter, it would have changed the history of the world.  Pascal
If you tell a woman she is beautiful, whisper it softly; for if the devil hears it he'll echo it many times.  Durivage
In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike.  Harriet Beecher Stowe
It is perhaps the highest distinction of the Greeks that they recognized the indissoluble connection of beauty and goodness.  Charles E. Norton
It's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it you don't need to have anything else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have.  Sir James M. Barrie
Loveliness needs not the aid of foreign ornament, but is, when unadorned, adorned the most.  Thomson
My comfort is, that old age, that ill layer-up of beauty, can do no more spoil upon my face.  William Shakespeare
No man receives the full culture of a man in whom the sensibility to the beautiful is not cherished; and there is no condition of life from which it should be excluded. - Of all luxuries this is the cheapest, and the most at hand, and most important to those conditions where coarse labor tends to give grossness to the mind.  Channing
Oh, thou are fairer than the evening air Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.  Christopher Marlowe
Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.  John Dryden
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.  Petrarch [Francesco Petrarca]
Rose among thorns.  Ammianus Marcellinus
She who is born beautiful is born with sorrow for many a man.  Confucius (551-479 B.C.)
Socrates called beauty a short-lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Aristotle, that it was better than all the letters of recommmendation in the world; Homer, that it was a glorious gift of nature, and Oivd, that is was a favor bestowed by the gods.	The fountain of beauty is the heart, and every generous thought illustrates the walls of your chamber.	If virtue accompanies beauty it is the heart's paradise; if vice be associated with it, it is the soul's purgatory. It is the wise man's bonfire, and the fool's furnace.  Quarles
There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.  Even virtue is more fair when it appears in a beautiful person.  Virgil
That which is beautiful is moral, that is all, nothing more.  Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880)
That which is striking and beautiful is not always good; but that which is good is always beautiful.  Ninon de Lenclos
The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.  Fyodor Dostoyevski (1821-1881)
The beauty seen, is partly in him who sees it.  Bovee
The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.  Bacon
The common foible of women who have been handsome is to forget that they are no longer so.  Rochefoucauld
The criterion of true beauty is, that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens. - There is therefore, something in true beauty that corresponds with right reason, and is not the mere creation of fancy.  Greville
The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. - For all beauty is truth. - True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.  Shaftesbury
The perception of beauty is a moral test.  Henry David Thoreau
The soul, by an instinct stronger than reason, ever associates beauty with truth.  Tuckerman
Then of thy beauty do I question make, That thou among the wastes of time must go.  William Shakespeare
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.  John Ray
There should be as little merit in loving a woman for her beauty, as a man for his prosperity, both being equally subject to change.  Pope
Those set our hairs, but these our flesh upright.  John Donne
To cultivate the sense of the beautiful, is one of the most effectual ways of cultivating an apreciation of the divine goodness.  Bovee
To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.  Steele
We who have seen Italia in the throes,	Half risen but to be hurled to ground, and now,	Like a ripe field of wheat where once drove plough,	All bounteous as she is fair, we think of those	Who blew the breath of life into her frame:	Cavour, Mazzini, Garibaldi: Three:	Her Brain, her Soul, her Sword; and set her free	From ruinous discords, with one lustrous aim.	George Meredith, "For the Centenary of Garibaldi," stanza 1
What tender force, what dignity divine, what virtue consecrating every feature; around that neck what dross are gold and pearl! Young
Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised.  Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty,	There arises the recognition of ugliness.  When they all know the good as good,	There arises the recognition of evil.	Lao Tzu
Who can explain the secret pathos of Nature's loveliness? It is a touch of melancholy inherited from our mother Eve. It is an unconscious memory of the lost Paradise. It is the sense that even if we should find another Eden, we would not be fit to enjoy it perfectly nor stay in it forever.  Henry Van Dyke
Who says that fictions only and false hair Become a verse? Is there in truth no beauty? George Herbert
[On vanity:] The nose of Cleopatra: if it had been shorter, the face of the earth would have changed.  Blaise Pascal
In bed we laugh; in bed we cry; in bed are born; in bed we die; the near approach the bed doth show, of human bliss to human woe.  Benserade
Night is the time for rest; how sweet when labors close, to gather round an aching heart the curtain of repose; stretch the tired limbs, and lay the weary head down on our own delightful bed.  J. Montgomery
The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.  Colton
What a delightful thing rest is! - The bed has become a place of luxury to me. - I would not exchange it for all the thrones in the world.  Napoleon
Let us watch well our beginnings, and results will manage themselves.  Alex Clark
Meet the first beginnings; look to the budding mischief before it has time to ripen to maturity.  Shakespeare
A consciousness of inward knowledge gives confidence to the outward behavior, which, of all things, is the best to grace a man in his carriage.  Feltham
Be commonplace and creeping, and you will be a success.  Pierre de Beaumarchais Barber of Seville.
Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought.  Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.  Elbert Hubbard
Behavior is a mirror in which every one displays his image.  Goethe
God has implanted a natural tendency to the monarchial form of government not only in the hearts of men but in practically all things.  St. Robert Bellarmine De Romano Pontifice.
Levity of behavior is the bane of all that is good and virtuous.  Seneca
No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.  Nathaniel Hawthorne
Remember that you ought to behave in life as you would at a banquet. As something is being passed around it comes to you; stretch out your hand, take a portion of it politely. It passes on; do not detain it. Or it has not come to you yet; do not project your desire to meet it, but wait until it comes in front of you. So act toward children, so toward a wife, so toward office, so toward wealth.  Epictetus
The behavior of women in our culture has largely been in response to the behavior of males toward them. Men have placed a high premium upon sexual attractiveness; and women, therefore, concentrate on making themselves sexually attractive.  Ashley Montagu
The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature, because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been imposed upon him externally by any foreign will whatsoever, human or divine, collective or individual.  Mikhail A. Bakunin
The sum of behaviour is to retain a man's own dignity, without intruding upon the liberty of others.  Francis Bacon
Walk groundly, talk profoundly, drink roundly, sleep soundly.  William Hazlitt
When you are at Rome live in the Roman style; when you are elsewhere live as they live elsewhere.  St. Ambrose Advice to St. Augustine. From Jeremy Taylor, Ductor Dubitantium, I, 1, 5
A belief is not true because it is useful.  Henri Frederic Amiel
A man lives by believing something, not by debating and arguing about many things.  Thomas Carlyle
A man may be a heretic in the truth; and if he believes things, only on the authority of others without other reason, then, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes heresy.  Milton
A man who is always ready to believe what is told him will never do well.  Gaius Petronius [Petronius Arbiter]
Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false?  If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.  Blaise Pascal
Belief is desecrated when given to unproved and unquestioned statements for the solace and private pleasure of the believer.  It is wrong always, everywhere, and for every one, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.  William James
Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.  Virgil [Publius Virgilius Maro] Aeneid, XI, 283
Believing as I do that man in the distant future will be a far more perfect creature than he now is, it is an intolerable thought that he and all other sentient beings are doomed to complete annihilation after such long-continued slow progress. To those who fully admit the immortality of the human soul, the destruction of our world will not appear so dreadful.  Charles (Robert) Darwin (1809-1882) Life and Letters of Charles Darwin (1887)
Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.  Charles Lamb
Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.  Seneca
For I do not seek to understand that I may believe, but I believe in order to understand. For this I believe - that unless I believe, I should not understand.  St. Anselm
Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for - because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.  Peter Marshall, Senate chaplain, prayer offered at the opening of the session, April 18, 1947. - Prayers Offered by the Chaplain, the Rev. Peter Marshall . . 1947-1948, p. 20 (1949). Senate Doc. 80-170.
He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend, must have a very long head or a very short creed.  Colton
He who expects men to be always as good as their beliefs, indulges a groundless hope; and he who expects men to be always as bad as their beliefs, vexes himself with a needless fear.  J. S. Kieffer
I am not afraid of those tender and scrupulous consciences who are ever cautious of professing and believing too much; if they are sincerely wrong, I forgive their errors and respect their integrity. - The men I am afraid of are those who believe everything, subscribe to everything, and vote for everything.  Shipley
If the thing believed is incredible, it is also incredible that the incredible should have been so believed.  St. Augustine The City of God.
If we let ourselves believe that man began with divine grace, that he forfeited this by sin, and that he can be redeemed only by divine grace through the crucified Christ then we shall find a peace of mind never granted to philosophers. He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.  Blaise Pascal
If you were to destroy in mankind the belief in immorality, not only love but every living force maintaining the life of the world would at once be dried up. Moreover, nothing then would be immoral, everything would be permissible, even cannibalism.  Fyodor Dostoyevski (1821-1881)
In belief lies the secret of all valuable exertion.  Bulwer
It is a singular fact that many men of action incline to the theory of fatalism, while the greater part of men of thought believe in a divine providence.  Balzac
It is to be believed because it is absurd.  Quintus Septimius Tertullian De Carne Christi, 5
Men willingly believe what they wish.  Gaius Julius Caesar De Bello Gallico.
Modern man has not ceased to be credulous the need to believe haunts him.  William James
No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, could ever compel the soul of man to believe or to disbelieve.  Thomas Carlyle
Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.  Demosthenes
Nothing is so easy as to deceive one's self; for what we wish, that we readily believe.  Demosthenes
Nothing is so firmly believed as that which is least known.  Michel de Montaigne
Orthodoxy is my doxy; heterodoxy is another man's doxy.  William Warburton
Personal interest is often the standard of our belief, as well as of our practice.  Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776-1788)
Remember that what you believe will depend very much upon what you are.  Noah Porter
Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. - They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.  Watts
The fact is, there were all kinds of Puritans. There were dismal precisians, like William Prynne, illiberal and vulgar fanatics, the Tribulation Wholesomes, Hope-on-high Bombys, and Zeal-of-the-land Busys, whose absurdities were the stock in trade of contemporary satirists from Johnson to Butler. But there were also gentlemen and scholars, like Fairfax, Marvell, Colonel Hutchinson, Vane, whose Puritanism was consistent with all elegant tastes and accomplishments. Was Milton's Puritanism hurtful to his art? No and yes. It was in many ways an inspiration; it gave him zeal, a Puritan word much ridiculed by the Royalists; it gave refinement, distinction, selectness, elevation to his picture of the world. But it would be uncritical to deny that it also gave a certain narrowness and rigidity to his view of human life.  Henry A. Beers, "Milton's Tercentenary," The Connecticut Wits and Other Essays, p. 230 (1920).
The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.  Froude
There are many great truths which we do not deny, and which nevertheless we do not fully believe.  J. W. Alexander
We are inclined to believe those we do not know, because they have never deceived us.  Samuel Johnson
We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings.  Ovid
What counts now is not just what we are against, but what we are for. Who leads us is less important than what leads us - what convictions, what courage, what faith - win or lose. A man doesn't save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principle can.  Adlai E. Stevenson, governor of Illinois, welcoming address before the Democratic national convention, Chicago, Illinois, July 21, 1952. - Speeches of Adlai Stevenson, p. 17 (1952).
One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.  John Stuart Mill
Be charitable before wealth makes thee covetous.  Sir T. Browne
Beneficence is a duty; and he who frequently practises it, and sees his benevolent intentions realized comes, at length, really to love him to whom he has done good.  Kant
Christian beneficence takes a large sweep; that circumference cannot be small of which God is the centre.  Hannah More
Doing good is the only certainly happy action of a man's life.  Sir P. Sidney
For his bounty there was no winter to it; an autumn it was that grew more by reaping.  Shakespeare
God has so constituted our nature that we cannot be happy unless we are, or think we are, the means of good to others. - We can scarcely conceive of greater wretchedness than must be felt by him who knows he is wholly useless in the world.  Erskine Mason
He that does good to another, does good also to himself, not only in the consequences, but in the very act; for the consciousness of well doing is, in itself, ample reward.  Seneca
I never knew a child of God being bankrupted by his benevolence. What we keep we may lose, but what we give to Christ we are sure to keep.  T. L. Cuyler
It is another's fault if he be ungrateful; but it is mine if I do not give. - To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so. - I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one. - Not to return a benefit is a great sin; but not to confer one is a greater.  Seneca
Money spent on ourselves may be a millstone about the neck; spent on others it may give us wings like eagles.  R. D. Hitchcock
Of all the virtues necessary to the completion of the perfect man, there is none to be more delicately implied and less ostentatiously vaunted than that of exquisite feeling or universal benevolence.  Bulwer
Rich people should consider that they are only trustees for what they possess, and should show their wealth to be more in doing good than merely in having it. - They should not reserve their benevolence for purposes after they are dead, for those who give not of their property till they die show that they would not then if they could keep it any longer.  Joseph Hall
The luxury of doing good surpasses every other personal enjoyment.  Gay
There is no use of money equal to that of beneficence; here the enjoyment grows on reflection; and our money is most truly ours when it ceases to be in our possession.  Mackenzie
Time is short; - your obligations are infinite. - Are your houses regulated, your children instructed, the afflicted relieved, the poor visited, the work of piety accomplished?  Massillon
Time, which gnaws and diminishes all things else, augments and increaseth benefits; because a noble action of liberality doth grow continually by our generously thinking of it and remembering it.  Rabelais
To feel much for others, and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfish, and exercise our benevolent affections, constitutes the perfection of human nature.  Adam Smith
We enjoy thoroughly only the pleasure that we give.  Dumas
We should give as we would receive cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.  Seneca
You are so to give, and to sacrifice to give, as to earn the eulogium pronounced on the woman, "She hath done what she could." - Do it now. - It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of a cold world.  Guthrie
Benevolence is allied to few vices; selfishness to few virtues.  Homer
Benevolent feeling ennobles the most trifling actions.  Thackeray
Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good actions: try to use ordinary situations.  Richter
Genuine benevolence is not stationary, but peripatetic; it goes about doing good.  W. Nevins
He only does not live in vain, who employs his wealth, his thought, his speech to advance the good of others.  Hindoo Maxim
He who will not give some portion of his ease, his blood, his wealth, for others' good, is a poor frozen churl.  Joanna Baillie
I truly enjoy no more of the world's good things than what I willingly distribute to the needy.  Seneca
It is good for us to think that no grace or blessing is truly ours till we are aware that God has blessed some one else with it through us.  Phillips Brooks
It is good to think well; it is divine to act well.  Horace Mann
It is no great part of a good man's lot to enjoy himself. - To be good and to do good are his ends, and the glory is to be revealed hereafter.  S. I. Prime
It is the glory of the true religion that it inculcates and inspires a spirt of benevolence. - It is a religion of charity, which none other ever was. - Christ went about doing good; he set the example to his disciples, and they abounded in it.  Fuller
Never did any soul do good, but it came readier to do the same again, with more enjoyment. Never was love, or gratitude, or bounty practised, but with increasing joy, which made the practiser still more in love with the fair act.  Shaftesbury
Rare benevolence! the minister of God.  Carlyle
The best way to do good to ourselves, is to do it to others; the right way to gather, is to scatter.  Seneca
The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection.  Howells
The disposition to give a cup of cold water to a disciple, is a far nobler property than the finest intellect.  Howells
The one who will be found in trial capable of great acts of love is ever the one who is always doing considerate small ones.  F. W. Robertson
There cannot be a more glorious object in creation than a human being replete with benevolence, meditating in what manner he may render himself most acceptable to the Creator by doing good to his creatures.  Fielding
They who scatter with one hand, gather with two, not always in coin, but in kind. Nothing multiplies so much as kindness.  Wray
This is the law of benefits between men; the one ought to forget at once what he has given, and the other ought never to forget what he has received.  Seneca
When Fenelon's library was on fire, "God be praised," he said, "that it is not the dwelling of some poor man." Howells
His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best.  Aeschylus The Seven Against Thebes, 592 
I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.  President Abraham Lincoln. - Francis Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, pp. 258-59 (1867).  President Richard M. Nixon used similar words about his plan for peace in an address to the nation on the war in Vietnam, November 3, 1969: "If it does succeed, what the critics say now won't matter. If it does not succeed, anything I say then won't matter." - Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard Nixon, 1969, p. 909.
A loving trust in the Author of the Bible is the best preparation for a wise and profitable study of the Bible itself.  H. C. Trumbull
A man may read the figures on the dial, but he cannot tell how the day goes unless the sun is shining on it; so we may read the Bible over, but we cannot learn to purpose till the spirit of God shine upon it and into our hearts.  T. Watson
A noble book! All men's book! It is our first, oldest statement of the never-ending problem - man's destiny, and God's ways with him here on earth; and all in such free-flowing outlines, - grand in its sincerity; in its simplicity and its epic melody.  Carlyle
After all, the Bible must be its own argument and defence. The power of it can never be proved unless it is felt. The authority of it can never be supported unless it is manifest. The light of it can never be demonstrated unless it shines.  H. J. Van Dyke
After reading the doctrines of Plato, Socrates, or Aristotle, we feel that the specific difference between their words and Christ's is the difference between an inquiry and a revelation.  Joseph Parker
All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more and more strongly the truths that come from on high and are contained in the sacred writings.  Herschel
All that I am I owe to Jesus Christ, revealed to me in His divine Book.  David Livingstone
All the distinctive features and superiority of our republican institutions are derived from the teachings of Scripture.  Everett
Bad men or devils would not have written the Bible, for it condemns them and their works, - good men or angels could not have written it, for in saying it was from God when it was but their own invention, they would have been guilty of falsehood, and this could not have been good. The only remaining being who could have written it, is God - its real author.  Flavel
Cities fall, empires come to nothing, kingdoms fade away as smoke. Where is Numa, Minos, Lycurgus? Where are their books? and what has become of their laws? But that this book no tyrant should have been able to consume, no tradition to choke, no heretic maliciously to corrupt; that it should stand unto this day, amid the wreck of all that was human, without the alteration of one sentence so as to change the doctrine taught therein, - surely there is a very singular providence, claiming our attention in a most remarkable manner .  John Jewell
Coming to the Bible through commentaries is much like looking at a landscape through garret windows, over which generations of unmolested spiders have spun their webs.  Henry Ward Beecher
Do you know a book that you are willing to put under your head for a pillow when you lie dying? That is the book you want to study while you are living. There is but one such book in the world.  Joseph Cook
Give to the people who toil and suffer, for whom this world is hard and bad, the belief that there is a better made for them. Scatter Gospels among the villages, a Bible for every cottage.  Victor Hugo
Hold fast to the Bible as the sheet-anchor of your liberties; write its precepts in your hearts, and practice them in your lives. To the influence of this book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization, and to this we must look as our guide in the future. "Righteousness exalteth a nation; but sin is a reproach to any people." U. S. Grant
Holy Scripture is a stream of running water, where alike the elephant may swim, and the lamb walk without losing its feet.  Gregory The Great
I believe a knowledge of the Bible without a college course is more valuable than a college course without a Bible.  William Lyon Phelps
I believe that the Bible is to be understood and received in the plain and obvious meaning of its passages; for I cannot persuade myself that a book intended for the instruction and conversion of the whole world should cover its true meaning in any such mystery and doubt that none but critics and philosophers can discover it.  Daniel Webster
I have always believed in the inspiration of the Holy Scriptures, whereby they have become the expression to man of the Word and Will of God.  Warren G. Harding
I have always said, I always will say, that the studious perusal of the sacred volume will make better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands.  Thomas Jefferson
I have read the Bible through many times, and now make it a practice to read it through once every year. - It is a book of all others for lawyers, as well as divines; and I pity the man who cannot find in it a rich supply of thought and of rules for conduct.  Daniel Webster
I know the Bible is inspired because it finds me at greater depths of my being than any other book.  Coleridge
I speak as a man of the world to men of the world; and I say to you, Search the Scriptures! The Bible is the book of all others, to be read at all ages, and in all conditions of human life; not to be read once or twice or thrice through, and then laid aside, but to be read in small portions of one or two chapters every day, and never to be intermitted, unless by some overruling necessity.  J. Q. Adams
If there is any one fact or doctrine, or command, or promise in the Bible which has produced no practical effect on your temper, or heart, or conduct, be assured you do not truly believe it.  Payson
In my investigation of natural science, I have always found that, whenever I can meet with anything in the Bible on my subjects, it always affords me a firm platform on which to stand.  Matthew F. Maury
In this little book (the New Testament), is contained all the wisdom of the world.  Ewald
In what light soever we regard the Bible, whether with reference to revelation, to history, or to morality, it is an invaluable and inexhaustible mine of knowledge and virtue.  J. Q. Adams
It has been truly said that any translation of the masterpiece (the Bible) must be a failure.  E. J. Goodspeed
It is a belief in the Bible, the fruit of deep meditation, which has served me as the guide of my moral and literary life. - I have found it a capital safely invested, and richly productive of interest.  Goethe
It is impossible to mentally or socially enslave a Bible-reading people. The principles of the Bible are the ground-work of human freedom.  Horace Greeley
Just as all things upon earth represent and image forth all the realities of another world, so the Bible is one mighty representative of the whole spiritual life of humanity.  Helen Keller
Men cannot be well educated without the Bible.  E. Nott
No lawyer can afford to be ignorant of the Bible.  Rufus Choate
No man ever did or ever will become truly eloquent without being a constant reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.  Fisher Ames
One monarch to obey, one creed to own; that monarch God; that creed his word alone.  Author Unknown
Our spiritual peril is the new idolatry - the worship of the God of Bigness and the God of Speed.  McIlyar H. Lichliter
Peruse the works of our philosophers; with all their pomp of diction, how mean, how contemptible, are they, compared with the Scriptures! Is it possible that a book at once so simple and sublime should be merely the work of man? The Jewish authors were incapable of the diction, and strangers to the morality contained in the Gospel, the marks of whose truths are so striking and inimitable that the inventor would be a more astonishing character than the hero.  Rousseau
Scholars may quote Plato in their studies, but the hearts of millions will quote the Bible at their daily toil, and draw strength from its inspiration, as the meadows draw it from the brook.  Conway
Sink the Bible to the bottom of the ocean, and still man's obligations to God would be unchanged. - He would have the same path to tread, only his lamp and his guide would be gone; - the same voyage to make, but his chart and compass would be overboard.  H. W. Beecher
So far as I have observed God's dealings with my soul, the flights of preachers sometimes entertained me, but it was Scripture expressions which did penetrate my heart, and in a way peculiar to themselves.  John Brown
So great is my veneration for the Bible, that the earlier my children begin to read it the more confident will be my hopes that they will prove useful citizens to their country and respectable members of society.  J. Q. Adams
That the truths of the Bible have the power of awakening an intense moral feeling in every human being; that they make bad men good, and send a pulse of healthful feeling through all the domestic, civil, and social relations; that they teach men to love right, and hate wrong, and seek each other's welfare as children of a common parent; that they control the baleful passions of the heart, and thus make men proficient in self-government; and finally that they teach man to aspire after conformity to a being of infinite holiness, and fill him with hopes more purifying, exalted, and suited to his nature than any other book the world has ever known - these are facts as incontrovertible as the laws of philosophy, or the demonstrations of mathematics.  F. Wayland
The Bible contains more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, more pure morality, more important history, and finer strains of poetry and eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever age or language they may have been written.  Sir Wm. Jones
The Bible furnishes the only fitting vehicle to express the thoughts that overwhelm us when contemplating the stellar universe.  O. M. Mitchell
The Bible goes equally to the cottage of the peasant, and the palace of the king. - It is woven into literature, and colors the talk of the street. - The bark of the merchant cannot sail without it; and no ship of war goes to the conflict but it is there. - It enters men's closets; directs their conduct, and mingles in all the grief and cheerfulness of life.  Theodore Parker
The Bible is a window in this prison-world, through which we may look into eternity.  Timothy Dwight
The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. - It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. - It is all pure, all sincere; nothing too much; nothing wanting.  Locke
The Bible is the light of my understanding, the joy of my heart, the fullness of my hope, the clarifier of my affections, the mirror of my thoughts, the consoler of my sorrows, the guide of my soul through this gloomy labyrinth of time, the telescope went from heaven to reveal to the eye of man the amazing glories of the far distant world.  Sir Wm. Jones
The Bible is the only cement of nations, and the only cement that can bind religious hearts together.  Bunsen
The Bible is to us what the star was to the wise men; but if we spend all our time in gazing upon it, observing its motions, and admiring its splendor, without being led to Christ by it, the use of it will be lost on us.  Thomas Adams
The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.  Sir Arthur Keith
The Bible rose to the place it now occupies because it deserved to rise to that place, and not because God sent anybody with a box of tricks to prove its divine authority.  Bruce Barton
The Bible, thoroughly known, is literature in itself - the rarest and richest in all departments of thought and imagination which exists.  James Anthony Froude
The Biblical record is far more concerned with events than it is with ideas. Ideas there are, but they are subordinated to events. The conviction, usually unstated, is that God revels Himself much more fully in history than in nature or in any other way. The men who wrote the words of the Bible were contented, for the most part, with telling a story.  Elton Trueblood
The general diffusion of the Bible is the most effectual way to civilize and humanize mankind; to purify and exalt the general system of public morals; to give efficacy to the just precepts of international and municipal law; to enforce the observance of prudence, temperance, justice and fortitude; and to improve all the relations of social and domestic life.  Chancellor Kent
The Gospel is not merely a book - it is a living power - a book surpassing all others. - I never omit to read it, and every day with the same pleasure. Nowhere is to be found such a series of beautiful ideas, and admirable moral maxims, which pass before us like the battalions of a celestial army.  The soul can never go astray with this book for its guide.  Napoleon on St. Helena
The grand old Book of God still stands, and this old earth, the more its leaves are turned over and pondered, the more it will sustain and illustrate the sacred Word.  James Dwight Dana
The highest earthly enjoyments are but a shadow of the joy I find in reading God's word.  Lady Jane Grey
The Holy Bible is not only great but highly explosive literature. It works in strange ways and no living man can tell or know how that book in its journeyings through the world has started an individual soul 10,000 different places into a new life, a new belief, a new conception and a new faith.  Stanley Baldwin
The incongruity of the Bible with the age of its birth; its freedom from earthly mixtures; its original, unborrowed, solitary greatness; the suddenness with which it broke forth amidst the general gloom; these, to me, are strong indications of its Divine descent; I cannot reconcile them with a human origin.  Channing
The longer you read the Bible, the more you will like it; it will grow sweeter and sweeter; and the more you get into the spirit of it, the more you will get into the spirit of Christ.  Romaine
The man of one book is always formidable; but when that book is the Bible he is irresistible.  W. M. Taylor
The morality of the Bible is, after all, the safety of society.  F. C. Monfort
The most learned, acute, and diligent student cannot, in the longest life, obtain an entire knowledge of this one volume. The more deeply he works the mine, the richer and more abundant he finds the ore; new light continually beams from this source of heavenly knowledge, to direct the conduct, and illustrate the work of God and the ways of men; and he will at last leave the world confessing, that the more he studied the Scriptures, the fuller conviction he had of his own ignorance, and of their inestimable value.  Walter Scott
The philosophers, as Varro tells us, counted up three hundred and twenty answers to the question, "What is the supreme good?" How needful, then, is a divine revelation, to make plain what is the true end of our being.  Tyron Edwards
The whole hope of human progress is suspended on the ever-growing influence of the Bible.  William H. Seward
The word of God will stand a thousand readings; and he who has gone over it most frequently is the surest of finding new wonders there.  J. Hamilton
There are no songs comparable to the songs of Zion; no orations equal to those of the prophets; and no politics like those which the Scriptures teach.  Milton
There is a Book worth all other books which were ever printed.  Patrick Henry
There is no book like the Bible for excellent wisdom and use.  Sir Matthew Hale
There is no book on which we can rest in a dying moment but the Bible.  John Selden
They who are not induced to believe and live as they ought by those discoveries which God hath made in Scripture, would stand out against any evidence whatever; even that of a messenger sent express from the other world.  Atterbury
To my early knowledge of the Bible I owe the best part of my taste in literature, and the most precious, and on the whole, the one essential part of my education.  Ruskin
To say nothing of its holiness or authority, the Bible contains more specimens of genius and taste than any other volume in existence.  Landor
Voltaire spoke of the Bible as a short-lived book. He said that within a hundred years it would pass from common use. Not many people read Voltaire today, but his house has been packed with Bibles as a depot of a Bible society.  Bruce Barton
We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy. I find more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history whatever.  Isaac Newton
When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness and your own duty.  Woodrow Wilson
You never get to the end of Christ's words. There is something in them always behind. They pass into proverbs, into laws, into doctrines, into consolations; but they never pass away, and after all the use that is made of them they are still not exhausted.  A. P. Stanley
I cannot too greatly emphasize the importance and value of Bible study - more important than ever before in these days of uncertainties, when men and women are apt to decide questions from the standpoint of expediency rather than on the eternal principles laid down by God, Himself.  John Wanamaker
A man must be both stupid an uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.  Addison
Bigotry has no head, and cannot think; no heart, and cannot feel. When she moves, it is in wrath; when she pauses it is amidst ruin; her prayers are curses - her God is a demon - her communion is death.  O'Connell
Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.  Colton
The bigot for the most part clings to opinions adopted without investigation, and defended without argument, while he is intolerant of the opinions of others.  Charles Buck
The bigot sees religion, not as a sphere, but a line; and it is the line in which he is moving. He is like an African buffalo - sees right forward, but nothing on the right or the left. He would not perceive a legion of angels or devils at the distance of ten yards, on the one side or the other.  John Foster
The mind of the bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour upon it, the more it will contract.  O. W. Holmes
There is no bigotry like that of "free thought" run to seed.  Horace Greeley
There is no tariff so injurious as that with which sectarian bigotry guards its commodities. - It dwarfs the soul by shutting out truths from other continents of thought, and checks the circulation of its own.  E. H. Chapin
When once a man is determined to believe, the very absurdity of the doctrine does but confirm him in his faith.  Junius
A life that is worth writing at all, is worth writing minutely and truthfully.  Longfellow
A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.  Thomas Carlyle
Biographies of great, but especially of good men, are most instructive and useful as helps, guides, and incentives to others. Some of the best are almost equivalent to gospels - teaching high living, high thinking, and energetic actions for their own and the world's good.  Samuel Smiles
Biography is the most universally pleasant and profitable of all reading.  Carlyle
Biography is the personal and home aspect of history.  Wilmott
Biography, especially of the great and good, who have risen by their own exertions to eminence and usefulness, is an inspiring and ennobling study. - Its direct tendency is to reproduce the excellence it records.  Horace Mann
Great men have often the shortest biographies. - Their real life is in their books or deeds.  History can be formed from permanent monuments and records; but lives can only be written from personal knowledge, which is growing every day less, and in a short time is lost forever.
Biography Most biographies are of little worth. - They are panegyrics, not lives. - The object is, not to let down the hero; and consequently what is most human, most genuine, most characteristic in his history, is excluded. - No department of literature is so false as biography.  William Ellery Channing
My advice is, to consult the lives of other men as we would a looking-glass, and from thence fetch examples for our own imitation.  Terence
Now the Poet cannot die, nor leave his music as of old, but round him ere he scarce be cold begins the scandal and the cry.  Alfred Lord Tennyson
Of all studies, the most delightful and useful is biography. - The seeds of great events lie near the surface; historians delve too deep for them. - No history was ever true; but lives which I have read, if they were not, had the appearance, the interest, the utility of truth.  Landor
Rich as we are in biography, a well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one; and there are certainly many more men whose history deserves to be recorded than persons able and willing to furnish the record.  Carlyle
The best teachers of humanity are the lives of great men.  Orson Squire Fowler
The poor dear dead have been laid out in vain; turned into cash, they are laid out again.  Thomas Hood
The remains of great and good men, like Elijah's mantle, ought to be gathered up and preserved by their survivors; that as their works follow them in the reward of them, they may stay behind in their benefit.  M. Henry
Those only who live with a man can write his life with any genuine exactness and discrimination, and few people who have lived with a man know what to remark about him.  Johnson
To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.  Plutarch
The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.  Lucretius
A noble birth and fortune, though they make not a bad man good, yet they are a real advantage to a worthy one, and place his virtues in the fairest light.  Lillo
Custom forms us all; our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed belief, are consequences of the place of our birth.  Hill
Distinguished birth is indeed an honor to him who lives worthily of the virtue of his progenitors. If, as Seneca says, "Virtue is the only nobility," he is doubly a nobleman who is not only descended from a virtuous ancestry, but is himself virtuous.  Features alone do not run in the blood; vices and virtues, genius and folly, are transmitted through the same sure but unseen channel.  Hazlitt
High birth is a gift of fortune which should never challenge esteem toward those who receive it, since it costs them neither study nor labor.  Bruyere
Of all vanities and fopperies, the vanity of high birth is the greatest. True nobility is derived from virtue, not from birth. Titles, indeed, may be purchased; but virtue is the only coin that makes the bargain valid.  Burton
Our birth is nothing but our death begun, as tapers waste the moment they take fire.  Young
Those who have nothing else to recommend them to the respect of others but only their blood, cry it up at a great rate, and have their mouths perpetually full of it. - By this mark they commonly distinguish themselves; but you may depend upon it there is no good bottom, nothing of the true worth of their own when they insist so much and set their credit on that of others.  Charron
What is birth to a man if it be a stain to his dead ancestors to have left such an offspring?  Sir P. Sidney
We are all citizens of one world, we are all of one blood. To hate a man because he was born in another country, because he speaks a different language, or because he takes a different view on this subject or that, is a great folly. Desist, I implore you, for we are all equally human.  Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity.  John Comenius
Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.  Augustine
Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, and though a late, a sure reward succeeds.  Congreve
Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them. Frederick Douglas
A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing,  but the want of learning is a a calamity to any people.  Frederick Douglas
Power concedes nothing without a demand.  It never did and it never will.  Frederick Douglas
The soul that is within me no man can degrade. Frederick Douglas
I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.  Frederick Douglas
There is not a man beneath the canopy of heaven that does not know that slavery is wrong.  Frederick Douglas
Men are whipped oftenest who are whipped easiest.  Frederick Douglas
I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.  Frederick Douglas
You are not judged on the height you have risen but on the depths from which you have climbed.  Frederick Douglas
Lilberty is meaningless where the rights to utter one's own thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.  That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants.  Frederick Douglas
Men may not get all they pay for in this world, but the certainly pay for all they get.  Frederick Douglas
The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance.  Frederick Douglas
No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his neck.  Frederick Douglas
The man who invented the door knocker won a "No Bell" prize!
Health, beauty, vigor, riches, and all the other things called goods, operate equally as evils to the vicious and unjust, as they do as benefits to the just.  Plato
How blessings brighten as they take their flight!  Young
It is generally true that all that is required to make men unmindful of what they owe to God for any blessing, is, that they should receive that blessing often and regularly.  Whately
Let me tell you that every misery I miss is a new blessing.  Izaak Walton
Nothing raises the price of a blessing like its removal; whereas, it was its continuance which should have taught us its value.  H. Moore
Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many: not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.  Dickens
The beloved of the Almighty are the rich who have the humility of the poor, and the poor who have the magnanimity of the rich.  Saadi
The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a schoolboy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.  Charles Lamb
There are three requisites to the proper enjoyment of earthly blessings: a thankful reflection, on the goodness of the giver; a deep sense of our own unworthiness; and a recollection of the uncertainty of our long possessing them. - The first will make us grateful; the second, humble; and the third, moderate.  Hannah More
True blessedness consisteth in a good life and a happy death.  Solon
A blush is a sign that nature hangs out, to show where chastity and honor dwell.  Gotthold E. Lessing
Better a blush on the face than a blot on the heart.  Cervantes
Blushing is the livery of virtue, though it may sometimes proceed from guilt.  Bacon
It is better for a young man to blush, than to turn pale.  Cicero
Men blush less for their crimes, than for their weaknesses and vanity.  Bruyere
Playful blushes, that seem but luminous escapes of thought.  Moore
The ambiguous livery worn alike by modesty and shame.  Balfour
The blush is nature's alarm at the approach of sin, and her testimony to the dignity of virtue.  Fuller
The inconvenience, or the beauty of the blush, which is the greater?  Madame Neckar
The man that blushes is not quite a brute.  Young
The troubled blood through his pale face was seen to come and go with tidings from his heart, as it a running messenger had been.  Spenser
When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty.  Gregory
Whoever blushes, is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.  Rousseau
A gentleman that loves to hear himself talk, will speak more in a minute than he will stand to in a month.  Shakespeare
Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, brags of his substance: they are but beggars who can count their worth.  Shakespeare
Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.  John Mason Brown
Lord Bacon told Sir Edward Coke when he was boasting, "The less you speak of your greatness, the more shall I think of it."  Shakespeare
Men of real merit, whose noble and glorious deeds we are ready to acknowledge are not yet to be endured when they vaunt their own actions.  
Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred.  Charles Buxton
Usually the greatest boasters are the smallest workers. The deep rivers pay a larger tribute to the sea than shallow brooks, and yet empty themselves with less noise.  W. Secker
We wound our modesty and make foul the clearness of our deservings, when of ourselves we publish them.  Shakespeare
Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.  Young
Who knows himself a braggart, let him fear this; for it will come to pass that every braggart shall be found an ass.  Shakespeare
With all his tumid boasts, he's like the sword-fish, who only wears his weapon in his mouth.  Madden Body
Can any honor exceed that which has been conferred on the human body? - Can any powers exceed the powers - any glory exceed the glory with which it is invested? - No wonder the apostle should beseech men to present their bodies a living sacrifice to God.  Pulsford
God made the human body, and it is the most exquisite and wonderful organization which has come to us from the divine hand. - It is a study for one's whole life. - If an undevout astronomer is mad, an undevout physiologist is madder.  H. W. Beecher
If there be anything common to us by nature, it is the members of our corporeal frame; yet the apostle taught that these, guided by the spirit as its instruments, and obeying a holy will, become transfigured, so that, in his language, the body becomes a temple of the Holy Ghost, and the meanest faculties, the lowest appetites, the humblest organs are ennobled by the spirit mind which guides them.  F. W. Robertson
It is shameful for a man to rest in ignorance of the structure of his own body, especially when the knowledge of it mainly conduces to his welfare, and directs his application of his own powers.  Melancthon
Our bodies are but dust, but they can bring praise to him that formed them. - Dull and tuneless in themselves, they can become glorious harps on which the music of piety may be struck to heaven.  Punshon
Our body is a well-set clock, which keeps good time, but if it be too much or indiscreetly tampered with, the alarm runs out before the hour.  Joseph Hall
Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences; whence it is bad in council though good in execution.  Bacon
Carried away by the irresistible influence which is always exercised over men's minds by a bold resolution in critical circumstances.  Guizot
Fortune befriends the bold.  Dryden
It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.  Scott
We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.  Bovee
Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall.  Smollett
I happened to read recently a remark by the American nuclear physicist W. Davidson, who noted that the explosion of one hydrogen bomb releases a greater amount of energy than all the explosions set off by all countries in all wars known in the entire history of mankind. And he, apparently, is right.  Nikita S. Khrushchev address at the United Nations, New York City, September 18, 1959, as reported by The New York Times, September 19, 1959, p. 8.
A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. - It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.  E. N. Kirk
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counsellor, a multitude of counsellors.  H. W. Beecher
A book may be compared to your neighbor: if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.  Brooke
A dose of poison can do its work only once, but a bad book can go on poisoning people's minds for any length of time.  John Murray
A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.  Tupper
A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose for a life beyond.  Milton
A good book is the very essence of a good man. - His virtues survive in it, while the foibles and faults of his actual life are forgotten. - All the goodly company of the excellent and great sit around my table, or look down on me from yonder shelves, waiting patiently to answer my questions and enrich me with their wisdom. - A precious book is a foretaste of immortality.  T. L. Cuyler
A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.  Chambers
A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them. It is a wrong to his family. Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it. And the love of knowledge, in a young mind, is almost always a warrant against the inferior excitement of passions and vices.  Horace Mann
After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. - The true university of these days is a collection of books.  Carlyle
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstacy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was.  Ernest Hemingway, "Old Newsman Writes," Esquire, December 1934, p. 26.
As well almost kill a man, as kill a good book; for the life of the one is but a few short years, while that of the other may be for ages. - Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself; kills as it were, the image of God.  Milton
Bad books are like intoxicating drinks; they furnish neither nourishment, nor medicine. - Both improperly excite; the one the mind; the other the body. - The desire for each increases by being fed. - Both ruin; one the intellect; the other the health; and together, the soul. - The safeguard against each is the same - total abstinence from all that intoxicates either mind or body.  Tyron Edwards
Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter.  Paxton Hood
Books (says Bacon) can never teach the use of books; the student must learn by commerce with mankind to reduce his speculations to practice. No man should think so highly of himself as to suppose he can receive but little light from books, nor so meanly as to believe he can discover nothing but what is to be learned from them.  Johnson
Books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age. They support us under solitude, and keep us from becoming a burden to ourselves. They help us to forget the crossness of men and things, compose our cares and our passions, and lay our disappointments asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.  Jeremy Collier
Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought.  Bulwer
Books are embalmed minds.  Bovee
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.  Robert Louis Stevenson, "An Apology for Idlers," Virginibus Puerisque and Later Essays, p. 80 (1969). Written between 1874-1879.
Books are immortal sons deifying their sires.  Plato
Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.  E. P. Whipple
Books are masters who instruct us without rods or ferules, without words or anger, without bread or money. If you approach them, they are not asleep; if you seek them, they do not hide; if you blunder, they do not scold; if you are ignorant, they do not laugh at you.  Richard de Bury
Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.  E. S. Barrett
Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a certain potency of life in them, to be as active as the soul whose progeny they are; they preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of the living intellect that bred them.  Milton
Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please.  Chambers
Books are the legacies of that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation, as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.  Joseph Addison
Books are the metemphyschosis; the symbol and presage of immortality. - The dead are scattered, and none shall find them; but behold they are here.  H. W. Beecher
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.  Charles W. Eliot, "The Happy Life," The Durable Satisfactions of Life, p. 37 (1910, reprinted 1969).
Books are the true levellers; they give to all who faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence of the greatest and best of our race.  Channing
Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.  Gibbon
Books bear him up a while, and make him try To swim with bladders of philosophy.  John Wilmot
Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.  Henry David Thoreau
Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.  Francis Bacon Proposition touching amendment of laws
Books should to one of these four ends conduce: for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.  Denham
Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.  Samuel Johnson
Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely necessary; to men of real science, they are tools: but more are tools to them.  Johnson
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again - for, like true friends, they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy - Colton
Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.  Sir W. Temple
Choose an author as you choose a friend.  Roscommon
Dead counsellors are the most instructive, because they are heard with patience and reverence.  Johnson
Deep versed in books, but shallow in himself.  Milton
Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.  Channing
Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! a message to us from the dead - from human souls we never saw, who lived, perhaps, thousands of miles away. And yet these, in those little sheets of paper, speak to us, arouse us, terrify us, teach us, comfort us, open their hearts to us as brothers.  Charles Kingsley
Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books. Why, except for some special reason, read an inferior book, at the very time you might be reading one of the highest order?  John Foster
God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.  Channing
He that loves not books before he comes to thirty years of age, will hardly love them enough afterward to understand them.  Clarendon
He that studies books alone will know how things ought to be; and he who studies men will know how they are.  Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832)
He [Pliny the Elder] used to say that " no book was so bad but some good might be got out of it." Pliny the Younger
I go to books and to nature as the bee goes to a flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey.  John Burroughs
I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading. I cannot sit and think; books think for me.  Charles Lamb
I never knew a girl who was ruined by a book.  James J. Walker
I saw a man clothed with rags a book in his hand, and a great burden upon his back.  John Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress. Apology for His Book
If a book come from the heart it will contrive to reach other hearts. - All art and authorcraft are of small account to that.  Carlyle
If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!  Thackeray
If all the crowns of Europe were placed at my disposal on condition that I should abandon my books and studies, I should spurn the crowns away and stand by the books.  Fenelon
If religious books are not widely circulated among the masses in this country, and the people do not become religious, I do not know what is to become of us as a nation. And the thought is one to cause solemn reflection on the part of every patriot and Christian. If truth be not diffused, error will be.  Daniel Webster
If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more new ideas for more wise men reading more good books in more public libraries. These libraries should be open to all - except the censor. We must know all the facts and hear all the alternatives and listen to all the criticisms. Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors. For the Bill of Rights is the guardian of our security as well as our liberty.  Senator John F. Kennedy, response to questionnaire, Saturday Review, October 29, 1960, p. 44.
If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.  Thomas Carlyle
In books, it is the chief of all perfections to be plain and brief.  Butler
In good books is one of the best safeguards from evil. - Life's first danger has been said to be an empty mind which, like an unoccupied room, is open for base spirits to enter. - The taste for reading provides a pleasant and elevating preoccupation.  H. W. Grout
Is not this a lamentable thing, that of the skin of an innocent lamb should be made parchment? that parchment, being scribbled o'er, should undo a man?  William Shakespeare
It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.  Leigh Hunt
Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason: they made no such demand upon those who wrote them. Those works, therefore, are the most valuable, that set our thinking faculties in the fullest operation.  Colton
Master books, but do not let them master you. - Read to live, don't live to read.  Bulwer
Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever.  J. Swartz
My books kept me from the ring, the dog-pit, the tavern, and the saloon. - The associate of Pope and Addison, the mind accustomed to the noble though silent discourse of Shakespeare and Milton, will hardly seek or put up with low or evil company and slaves.  Thomas Hood
Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.  Colton
No book can be so good as to be profitable when negligently read.  Seneca
Some books are to be tasted; others swallowed; and some few to be chewed and digested.  Bacon
Some books, like the City of London, fare the better for being burned.  Tom Brown
That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.  A. B. Alcott
The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought.  Channing
The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.  O. W. Holmes
The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.  Dr. Frank Crane
The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.  McCosh
The books of Nature and of Revelation equally elevate our conceptions and invite our piety; they are both written by the finger of the one eternal, incomprehensible God.  T. Watson
The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, "The medicines of the soul." The books which help you most are those which make you think most. The hardest way of learning is by easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought; deep freighted with truth and beauty.  Theodore Parker
The constant habit of perusing devout books is so indispensable, that it has been termed the oil of the lamp of prayer. Too much reading, however, and too little meditation, may produce the effect of a lamp inverted; which is extinguished by the very excess of that ailment, whose property is to feed it.  H. More
The most foolish kind of a book is a kind of leaky boat on the sea of wisdom; some of the wisdom will get in anyhow.  O. W. Holmes
The paper burns, but the words fly away.  Ben Joseph Akiba Last words, at the stake, when the Torah was also burned.
The past but lives in written words: a thousand ages were blank if books had not evoked their ghosts, and kept the pale unbodied shades to warn us from fleshless lips.  Bulwer
The readers and the hearers like my books,	But yet some writers cannot them digest;	But what care I? for when I make a feast	I would my guests should praise it, not the cooks.	Sir John Harington
The silent influence of books, is a mighty power in the world; and there is a joy in reading them known only to those who read them with desire and enthusiasm. - Silent, passive, and noiseless though they be, they yet set in action countless multitudes, and change the order of nations.  Giles
The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.  Colton 
The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man. Nothing else that he builds ever lasts. Monuments fall; nations perish; civilizations grow old and die out; and, after an era of darkness, new races build others. But in the world of books are volumes that have seen this happen again and again, and yet live on, still young, still as fresh as the day they were written, still telling men's hearts of the hearts of men centuries dead.  And even the books that do not last long, penetrate their own times at least, sailing farther than Ulysses even dreamed of, like ships on the seas. It is the author's part to call into being their cargoes and passengers, - living thoughts and rich bales of study and jeweled ideas. And as for the publishers, it is they who build the fleet, plan the voyage, and sail on, facing wreck, till they find every possible harbor that will value their burden.  Clarence S. Day, The Story of the Yale University Press Told by a Friend, pp. 7-8 (1920).
There is a kind of physiognomy in the titles of books no less than in the faces of men, by which a skillful observer will know as well what to expect from the one as the other.  Joseph Butler
There is no book so bad but something valuable may be derived from it.  Pliny
There is no book so poor that it would not be a prodigy if wholly wrought out by a single mind, without the aid of prior investigators.  Johnson
There is no worse robber than a bad book.  Italian Proverb
There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.  Joubert
Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. 'Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.  Fuller
To buy books only because they were published by an eminent printer, is much as if a man should buy clothes that did not fit him, only because they were made by some famous tailor.  Pope
To use books rightly, is to go to them for help; to appeal to them when our own knowledge and power fail; to be led by them into wider sight and purer conception than our own, and to receive from them the united sentence of the judges and councils of all time, against our solitary and unstable opinions.  Ruskin
Tradition is but a meteor, which, if it once falls, cannot be rekindled. - Memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled. - But written learning is a fixed luminary, which, after the cloud that had hidden it has passed away, is again bright in its proper station. - So books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when opened again, will again impart instruction.  Johnson
Truly each new book is as a ship that bears us away from the fixity of our limitations into the movement and splendor of life's infinite ocean.  Helen Keller
Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating, and transmitting thought.  H. Rogers
We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.  Fielding
We ought to reverence books; to look on them as useful and mighty things. - If they are good and true, whether they are about religion, politics, farming, trade, law, or medicine, they are the message of Christ, the maker of all things - the teacher of all truth.  C. Kingsley
When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. - It is good, and made by a good workman.  Bruyere
When a man loves books he has in him that which will console him under many sorrows and strengthen him in various trials. Such a love will keep him at home; and make his time pass pleasantly. Even when visited by bodily or mental affliction he can resort to this book-love and be cured.  And when a man is at home and happy with a book; sitting by his fireside; he must be a churl if he does not communicate that happiness. Let him read now and then to his wife and children. Those thoughts will grow and take root in the hearts and minds of his listeners. A man who feels sympathy with what is good and noble; is at the time he feels that sympathy; good and noble himself.  J. H. Friswell
When a new book comes out I read an old one.  H. Rogers
Without books, God is silent, justice dormant, natural science at a stand, philosophy lame, letters dumb, and all things involved in darkness.  Bartholini
Woe be to him that reads but one book.  George Herbert
'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print; A book's a book, though there's nothing in't.  George Gordon, Lord Byron
A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading.  Jeremy Collier
Book love is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.  Anthony Trollope
Books are the curse of the human race.  Benjamin Disraeli
He has left off reading altogether, to the great improvement of his originality.  Charles Lamb
If I had read as much as other men I should have known no more than they.  Thomas Hobbes
Some men borrow books; some men steal books; and others beg presentation copies from the author.  James Jeffrey Roche
Some people read because they are too lazy to think.  G. C. Lichtenberg
The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity.  Thomas Carlyle
The last thing that we find in making a book is to know what we must put first.  Blaise Pascal
The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.  Abraham Lincoln
The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.  Joseph Joubert
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.  Edmund Burke
We live in an age that reads too much to be wise.  Oscar Wilde
When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left, I buy food and clothes.  Desiderius Erasmus
When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing.  Blaise Pascal
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?  Henry Ward Beecher
Who knows if Shakespeare might not have thought less if he had read more?  Edward Young
A bore is a person who talks when you want him to listen.  Ambrose Bierce
Few men are more to be shunned than those who have time, but know not how to improve it, and so spend it in wasting the time of their neighbors, talking forever though they have nothing to say.  Tyron Edwards
I am never bored anywhere: being bored is an insult to oneself.  Jules Renard
It is hoped that, with all modern improvements, a way will be discovered of getting rid of bores; for it is too bad that a poor wretch can be punished for stealing your handkerchief or gloves, and that no punishment can be inflicted on those who steal your time, and with it your temper and patience, as well as the bright thoughts that might have entered your mind, if they had not been frightened away by the bore.  Byron
There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.  Swift
There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people.  Bonald
We are almost always wearied in the company of persons with whom we are not permitted to be weary.  Rochefoucauld
We often forgive those who bore us; we cannot forgive those whom we bore.  Duc de la Rochefoucauld
Getting into debt, is getting into a tanglesome net.  Benjamin Franklin
Neither a borrower, nor a lender be; for loan oft loses both itself and friend; and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.  Shakespeare
No remedy against this consumption of the purse; borrowing only lingers it out, but the disease is incurable.  Shakespeare
A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.  Sir P. Sidney
All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.  Hawthorne
At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.  E. H. Chapin
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is the victory over self.  Aristotle
Nature often enshrines gallant and noble hearts in weak bosoms; oftenest, God bless her, in woman's breast.  Dickens
No man can be brave who considers pain the greatest evil of life; or temperate, who regards pleasure as the highest good.  Cicero
Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.  Author Unknown
Someone praising a man for his foolhardy bravery, Cato, the elder, said, "There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life." Plutarch
The best hearts are ever the bravest.  Sterne
The bravery founded on hope of recompense, fear of punishment, experience of success, on rage, or on ignorance of danger, is but common bravery, and does not deserve the name. - True bravery proposes a just end; measures the dangers, and meets the result with calmness and unyielding decision.  La None A brave man is sometimes a desperado; but a bully is always a coward.  Haliburton
Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.  Cicero
Brevity to writing is what charity is to all other virtues; righteousness is nothing without the one, nor authorship without the other.  Sydney Smith
Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts, in having order and arrangement in what we say, and in speaking with composure.  Fenelon
Have something to say; say it, and stop when you're done.  Tyron Edwards
I saw one excellency within my reach - it was brevity, and I determined to obtain it.  Jay If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.  Southey
Never be so brief as to become obscure.  Tyron Edwards
One rare, strange virtue in speeches, and the secret of their mastery, is, that they are short.  Halleck
Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words, or he will certainly misunderstand them.  Ruskin
Talk to the point, and stop when you have reached it. - Be comprehensive in all you say or write. - To fill a volume about nothing is a credit to nobody.  John Neal
The fewer the words, the better the prayer.  Luther
When one has no design but to speak plain truth, he may say a great deal in a very narrow compass.  Steele
When you introduce a moral lesson let it be brief.  Horace
Words are like leaves, and where they most abound, much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.  Pope
A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint, will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy. - Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding; it dissipates every doubt and scruple in an instant; accommodates itself to the meanest capacities; silences the loud and clamorous, and cringes over the most obstinate and inflexible. - Philip of Macedon was a man of most invincible reason this way. He refuted by it all the wisdom of Athens; confounded their statesmen; struck their orators dumb; and at length argued them out of all their liberties.  Addison
Petitions not sweetened with gold, are but unsavory, and often refused; or if received, are pocketed, not read.  Massinger
The universe is not rich enough to buy the vote of an honest man.  Gregory
Though authority be a stubborn bear, yet he is oft led by the nose with gold.  Shakespeare
Who thinketh to buy villainy with gold, shall find such faith so bought, so sold.  Marston
Broadmindedness is the result of flattening highmindedness out.  George Saintsbury
If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.  Isaac Newton
All's well that ends well.
The good (so-so, mediocrity, lukewarm) is the enemy of the best (the standard).
The bitterness of of the poor quality lingers long after the sweetness of meeting the schedule.
Men's Bathroom sign: Our aim is to keep this bathroom clean, your aim will help us.
Bumper sticker: I'm may be lost, but I'm making great time.   (Talk about keeping momentum going.)
If you lie down with the dogs, you will get up with fleas.
He had no tears for his own grief, but sweat drops of blood for mine.
Pessimist's epitaph: I knew this was going to happen.
The measure of a great man is how much it takes to discourage him.
Some worship at work, work at play, and play at worship.
The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through this sequence:" From bondage to spiritual faith; 	from spiritual faith to great courage; 	from courage to liberty; 	from liberty to abundance, 	from abundance to complacency; 	from complacency to apathy, 	from apathy to dependence, 	from dependence back into bondage.
At about the time our original 13 states adopted their new constitution in 1787, a Scottish history professor by the name of Professor Alexander Tyler had this to say about "The Fall of the Athenian Republic" over 2,000 years previous to that date:	"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse (generous gifts) from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, (which is) always followed by a dictatorship." 
An enlightened people will never suffer what was established for their
security, to be perverted to an act of tyranny.  George Nicholas Virgina Convention on the Ratification of the Constitution
I used to eat a lot of natural foods until I learned that most people die of natural causes. 
Gardening Rule: When weeding, the best way to make sure you are removing a weed and not a valuable plant is to pull on it.  If it comes out of the ground easily, it is a valuable plant. 
The easiest way to find something lost around the house is to buy a replacement.
Never take life seriously.  Nobody gets out alive anyway. 
An unbreakable toy is useful for breaking other toys. 
If quitters never win, and winners never quit, then who is the fool who said, "Quit while you're ahead?" 
Health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die. 
The only difference between a rut and a grave is the depth. 
Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day; teach that person to use the Internet and they won't bother you for weeks. 
Some people are like Slinkies . . . not really good for anything, but you still can't help but smile when you see one tumble down the stairs. 
Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing. 
Have you noticed since everyone has a camcorder these days no one talks about seeing UFOs like they used to? 
Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again. 
All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism. 
Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut saves you thirty cents? 
In the 60's, people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird and people take Prozac to make it normal. 
Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. 
How is it one careless match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole box to start a campfire? 
I don't know what kind of weapons will be used in the third World War, assuming there will be a third world war. But I can tell you what the fourth world war will be fought with, stone clubs. Einstein
Peace is that brief glorious moment in History when everybody stands around reloading.
Threats are the arrows of a defeated foe.
A sharp tongue invites a split lip.
It is the people and politicians who make war and the soldiers who make peace.
Keep the faith - but not from others.
The best vitamin for Christian - B1.
It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians, not by religions, but by the gospel of Jesus Christ.  Patrick Henry
Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers.  Chief Justice John Jay
And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.  President George Washington 
Where there is no religion, there is no morality....With the loss of religion...the ultimate foundation of confidence is blown up; and of life, liberty and property are buried in ruins.  Timothy Dwight (President of Yale, Grandson of Jonathan Edward)
Without God there is no virtue because there is no prompting of the conscience....without God there is a coarsening of the society; without God democracy will not and cannot long endure....If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a Nation gone under.  President Ronald W. Reagan 
Forbidden fruit creates many jams.
Why does the sun lighten our hair, but darken our skin?
Why don't you ever see the headline "Psychic Wins Lottery"?
Why is "abbreviated" such a long word?
Why is it that doctors call what they do "practice"?
Why is lemon juice made with artificial flavor, and dishwashing liquid made with real lemons?
Why is the man who invests all your money called a broker?
Why is the time of day with the slowest traffic called rush hour?
Why isn't there mouse-flavored cat food?  
When dog food is new and improved tasting, who tests it?
Why do they sterilize the needle for lethal injections?
You know that indestructible black box that is used on airplanes? Why don't they make the whole plane out of that stuff?!
Why don't sheep shrink when it rains?
Why are they called apartments when they are all stuck together?   
If con is the opposite of pro, is Congress the opposite of progress?
If flying is so safe, why do they call the airport the terminal?
Those who kill time, murder success.
Instead of spending time, try investing it.
Brotherhood is, in essence, a hope on the road - the long road - to fulfillment. To claim it to be already a full-grown fact is to be guilty of hypocrisy. To admit it to be always a fiction is to be guilty of cynicism. Let us avoid both.  T. V. Smith
However degraded or wretched a fellow mortal may be, he is still a member of our common species.  Seneca
If God is thy father, man is thy brother.  Lamartine
Jesus throws down the dividing prejudices of nationality, and teaches universal love, without distinction of race, merit, or rank. - A man's neighbor is everyone that needs help.  J. C. Geikie
Our doctrine of equality, liberty and humanity comes from our belief in the brotherhood of man, through the fatherhood of God.  Calvin Coolidge
The brotherhood of man is an integral part of Christianity no less than the Fatherhood of God; and to deny the one is no less infidel than to deny the other.  Lymann Abbott
The crest and crowning of all good, life's final star, is Brotherhood.  Edwin Markham
The mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one.  Thomas Carlyle
The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. - We cannot exist without mutual help. All, therefore, that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellowmen; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.  Walter Scott
The sixteenth century said, "Responsibility to God." - The present nineteenth says, "The brotherhood of man." C. L. Thompson
There is a destiny that makes us brothers; None goes his way alone
All that we send into the lives of others, Comes back onto our own.  Edwin Markham, "A Creed," stanza 1, Poems of Edwin Markham, p. 18 (1950).
There is no brotherhood of man without the fatherhood of God.  H. M. Field
To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization.  Abraham Lincoln
To live is not to live for one's self alone; let us help one another.  Menander
Until you have become really in actual fact a brother of everyone, brotherhood will not come to pass. Only by brotherhood will liberty be saved.  Fyodor Dostoevski
Until you have become really, in actual fact, as brother to everyone, brotherhood will not come to pass.  Fyodor Dostoyevski (1821-1881)
We are members of one great body, planted by nature in a mutual love, and fitted for a social life. - We must consider that we were born for the good of the whole.  Seneca
We must love men ere they will seem to us worthy of our love.  Shakespeare
A speck of dust may clog the works of a watch; mere stones derail the fastest train; little ship-worms sink the proudest schooner; Marine vermin contrive to destroy the mightiest dikes.  Author Unknown
He that is fond of building will soon ruin himself without the help of enemies.  Plutarch
Never build after you are five-and-forty; have five years' income in hand before you lay a brick; and always calculate the expense at double the estimate.  Kett
Something men have that half-gods never know, the power to sensitize cold, lifeless things; to make stones breathe, and out of metal grow escarpments that deny the need of wings.  Virginia McCormick
They go to the forest for palm or pine, the stuff for the humbler homes; the mountain gives up its valued gifts, for the stately spires and domes; but whether they work with marble or sod, the builder is hand-in-hand with God.  William Dunbar
If we could look inside the other person at scars from the battles he has lost, our own scars would weigh less heavy.  Joshua Riebman
Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.  Honore de Balzac
But it is not by the consolidation, or concentration, of powers, but by their distribution that good government is effected.  Thomas Jefferson
We trained hard, but every time we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing inefficiency and demoralization.  Petronius
A business consultant is a person who knows much less about your business than you do yourself, but who is prepared to advise you how to run it, for a fee which your business could not possibly afford to pay even if it was run properly instead of according to his advice.  John Roughton Simpson
A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.  Howard Scott
After all, the chief business of the American people is business.  President Calvin Coolidge, address before the American Society of Newspaper Editors, Washington, D.C., January 17, 1925. - Coolidge, Foundations of the Republic, p. 187 (1926).  Usually misquoted as: "The business of America is business."
After all, what the worker does is buy back from those who finance him the goods that he himself produces. Pay him a wage that enables him to buy, and you fill your market with ready consumers.  James J. Davis
All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgments of probabilities, and not on certainties.  Charles W. Eliot
An excellent monument might be erected to the Unknown Stockholder. It might take the form of a solid stone ark of faith apparently floating in a pool of water.  Felix Riesenberg
Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to make a better article.  Alice Hubbard
As we view the achievements of aggregated capital, we discover the existence of trusts, combinations, and monopolies, while the citizen is struggling far in the rear or is trampled to death beneath an iron heel. Corporations, which should be the restrained creatures of the law and the servants of the people, are fast becoming the people's masters.  Grover Cleveland Annual Message to Congress, 1888.
Big business is a superior economic tool by which to provide those things that constitute the physical basis of living (Also) in bigness we have the material foundation of a society which can further the highest values known to men, values we describe as "spiritual." David E. Lilienthal
Big Business is basic to the very life of this country; and yet many - perhaps most - Americans have a deep-seated fear and an emotional repugnance to it. Here is a monumental contradiction.  David E. Lilienthal
Business is a combination of war and sport.  Andre Maurois
Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching for what it gets.  Henry Ford
Business may not be the noblest pursuit, but it is true that men are bringing to it some of the qualities which actuate the explorer, scientist, artist: the zest, the open-mindedness, even the disinterestedness, with which the scientific investigator explores some field of pure research.  Earnest Elmo Calkins
Business needs more of the professional spirit. The professional spirit seeks professional integrity, from pride, not from compulsion. The professional spirit detects its own violations and penalizes them.  Henry Ford
Business will continue to go where invited and remain where appreciated.  Author Unknown
Business without profit is not business any more than a pickle is candy.  Charles F. Abbott
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.  Ambrose Bierce
Do other men for they would do you. That's the true business precept.  Charles Dickens
Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.  Bovee
Free competition, though within certain limits just and productive of good results, cannot be the ruling principle of the economic world.  Pope Pius XI
I remember that a wise friend of mine did usually say, "That which is everybody's business is nobody's business." Izaak Walton
I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than is this incessant business.  Henry David Thoreau
If the Golden Rule is to be preached at all in these modern days, when so much of our life is devoted to business, it must be preached especially in its application to the conduct of business.  Ferdinand S. Schenck
If there must always be a laboring population distinct from proprietors and employers, we regard the slave system as decidedly preferable to the system at wages.  Orestes A. Brownson
In our days not alone is wealth accumulated, but immense power and despotic economic domination is concentrated in the hands of a few, and that those few are for the most part not the owners, but only the trustees and directors of invested funds, who administer them at their good pleasure so that no one dare breathe against their will.  Pope Pius XI
Let every man mind his own business.  Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote, pt. I, III, 8, 157
Love of bustle is not industry.  Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Markets as well as mobs respond to human emotions; markets as well as mobs can be inflamed to their own destruction.  Owen D. Young
Men of great parts are of the unfortunate in the management of public business, because they are apt to go out of the common road by the quickness of their imagination.  Swift
Method goes far to prevent Trouble in Business: For it makes the Task easy, hinders Confusion, saves abundance of Time, and instructs those that have Business depending, both what to do and what to hope.  William Penn, Some Fruits of Solitude in Reflections & Maxims
Most are engaged in business the greater part of their lives, because the soul abhors a vacuum and they have not discovered any continuous employment for man's nobler faculties.  Henry David Thoreau
Most of those who say so easily that this is our way out do not, I am convinced, understand that fundamental changes of attitude, new disciplines, revised legal structures, unaccustomed limitations on activity, are all necessary if we are to plan. This amounts, in fact, to the abandonment, finally, of laissez faire. it amounts, practically, to the abolition of "business." Rexford G. Tugwell, "The Principle of Planning and the institution of Laissez Faire," paper presented at the 44th annual meeting of the American Economic Association. - The American Economic Review, vol. 22, no. 1, supplement, March 1932, p. 76.
Not because of any extraordinary talents did he succeed, but because he had a capacity on a level for business and not above it.  Tacitus
One aspect of modern life which has gone far to stifle men is the rapid growth of tremendous corporations. Enormous spiritual sacrifices are made in the transformation of shopkeepers into employees. The disappearance of free enterprise has led to a submergence of the individual in the impersonal corporation in much the same manner as he has been submerged in the state in other lands.  William O. Douglas, chairman, Securities and Exchange Commission, speech at annual dinner of Fordham University Alumni Association, New York City, February 9, 1939. - James Allen, Democracy and Finance, p. 291 (1940, reprinted 1969).  This was Douglas's last speech before his appointment to the Supreme Court.
So the question is, do corporate executives, provided they stay within the law, have responsibilities in their business activities other than to make as much money for their stockholders as possible? And my answer to that is, no they do not.  Milton Friedman, interview with John McClaughry, contributing editor of Business and Society Review, on the topic of corporate social responsibility. - "Milton Friedman Responds," Chemtech, February 1974, p. 72.
Some day the ethics of business will be universally recognized, and in that day Business will be seen to be the oldest and most useful of all the professions.  Henry Ford
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude than by mental capacities.  Walter Dill Scott
Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.  Aldus Manutius Placard on the door of the Aldine Press, Venice, established
That I should make him that steals my coat a present of my cloak - what would become of business?  Katharine Lee Bates
The "tired business man" is one whose business is usually not a successful one.  Senator Joseph R. Grundy
The art of winning in business is in working hard - not taking things too seriously.  Elbert Hubbard
The best mental effort in the game of business is concentrated on the major problem of securing the consumer's dollar before the other fellow gets it.  Stuart Chase
The lawyer and the doctor and other professional men have often a touch of civilization. The banker and the merchant seldom.  Jim Tully
The man who is above his business may one day find his business above him.  Drew
The manufacturer who waits in the woods for the world to beat a path to his door, is a great optimist. But the manufacturer who shows his "mousetraps" to the world keeps the smoke coming out of his chimney.  O. B. Winters
The musician, the painter, the poet, are, in a larger sense, no greater artists than the man of commerce.  W. S. Maverick
The old days of "caveat emptor" - let the buyer beware - are gone.  Alvan Macauley
The substance of the eminent Socialist gentleman's speech is that making a profit is a sin, but it is my belief that the real sin is taking a loss.  Winston Churchill, remarks in the House of Commons responding to a Laborite speech on the evils of free enterprise. - James C. Humes, Speaker's Treasury of Anecdotes About the Famous, p. 45 (1978). Unverified.
The trusts and combinations - the communism of self - whose machinations have prevented us from reaching the success we deserved, should not be forgotten nor forgiven.  President Grover Cleveland, letter to Representative Thomas C. Catchings, August 27, 1894. - Letters of Grover Cleveland, 1850-1908, ed. Allan Nevins, p. 365 (1933).
The way to stop financial "joy-riding" is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.  Woodrow Wilson
There is now scarcely any outlet for energy in this country except business.  But it was men of another stamp than this that made England what it is; and men of another stamp will be needed to prevent its decline.  John Stuart Mill
To business that we love, we rise betimes, and go to it with delight.  Shakespeare
To manage a business successfully requires as much courage as that possessed by the soldier who goes to war. Business courage is the more natural because all the benefits which the public has in material wealth come from it.  Charles F. Abbott
We are obviously all hurt by inflation. Everybody is hurt by inflation. If you really wanted to examine who percentage-wise is hurt the most in their incomes, it is the Wall Street brokers. I mean their incomes have gone down the most.  Alan Greenspan
We believe that there is one economic lesson which our twentieth century experience has demonstrated conclusively - that America can no more survive and grow without big business than it can survive and grow without small business. the two are inter-dependent. You cannot strengthen one by weakening the other, and you cannot add to the stature of a dwarf by cutting off the legs of a giant.  Benjamin Franklin Fairless,president of United States Steel Corporation
We demand that big business give people a square deal; in return we must insist that when anyone engaged in big business honestly endeavours to do right, he shall himself be given a square deal.  Theodore Roosevelt
Wealthy owners and all masters of labor should be mindful of this: that to exercise pressure upon the indigent and the destitute for the sake of gain, and to gather one's profit out of the need of another, is condemned by all laws, human and divine.  Pope Leo XIII
When nations grow old the Arts grow cold
And Commerce settles on every tree.  William Blake
I never knew any one to interfere with other people's disputes, but that he heartily repented of it.  Lord Carlisle
Nobody ever pries into another man's concerns, but with a design to do, or to be able to do him a mischief.  South
One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.  Pope
"But" is a word that cools many a warm impulse, stifles many a kindly thought, puts a dead stop to many a brotherly deed. - No one would ever love his neighbor as himself if he listened to all the "buts" that could be said.  Bulwer
I do not like "But yet" - It does allay the good precedence. - Fie upon "but yet." - "But yet" is as a jailer, to bring forth some monstrous malefactor.  Shakespeare
Oh, now comes that bitter word - but, which makes all nothing that was said before, that smooths and wounds, that strikes and dashes more than a flat denial, or a plain disgrace.  Daniel
The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a "but." H. W. Beecher
A trouble is a trouble, and the general idea, in the country, is to treat it as such, rather than to snatch the knotted cords from the hand of God and deal out murderous blows.  William McFee
Calamity is man's true touchstone.  Beaumont and Fletcher
Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves.  Davenant
If we take sinful means to avoid calamity, that very often brings it upon us.  Wall
It is only from the belief of the goodness and wisdom of a supreme being, that our calamities can be borne in the manner which becomes a man.  Mackenzie
When any calamity has been suffered, the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.  Johnson
The Senator says the territory of California is three times greater than the average extent of the new States of the Union. Well, Sir, suppose it is. We all know that it has more than three times as many mountains, inaccessible and rocky hills, and sandy wastes, as are possessed by any State of the Union. But how much is there of useful land? how much that may be made to contribute to the support of man and of society? These ought to be the questions. Well, with respect to that, I am sure that everybody has become satisfied that, although California may have a very great sea-board, and a large city or two, yet that the agricultural products of the whole surface now are not, and never will be, equal to one half part of those of the State of Illinois; no, nor yet a fourth, or perhaps a tenth part.  Senator Daniel Webster
What was the use of my having come from Oakland it was not natural to have come from there yes write about it if I like or anything if I like but not there, there is no there there.  Gertrude Stein
At every word, a reputation dies.  Pope
Back-wounding, calumny the whitest virtue strikes.  Shakespeare
Be thou chaste as ice, and pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.  Shakespeare
Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it.  Penn
Calumny crosses oceans, scales mountains, and traverses deserts with greater ease than the Scythian Abaris, and, like him, rides upon a poisoned arrow.  Colton
Calumny is like the wasp that worries you, which it is not best to try to get rid of unless you are sure of slaying it; for otherwise it returns to the charge more furious than ever.  Chamfort
Close thine ear against him that opens his mouth against another. - If thou receive not his words, they fly back and wound him. - If thou receive them, they flee forward and wound thee.  Quarles
False praise can please, and calumny affright, none but the vicious and the hypocrite.  Horace
He that lends an easy and credulous ear to calumny, is either a man of very ill morals, or he has no more sense and understanding than a child.  Menander
I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me. - It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.  Ben Jonson
I never listen to calumnies; because, if they are untrue, I run the risk of being deceived; and if they are true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.  Montesquieu
I never think it needful to regard calumnies; they are sparks, which, if you do not blow them, will go out of themselves.  Boerhave
Neglected calumny soon expires; show that you are hurt, and you give it the appearance of truth.  Tacitus
Never cause a lie; if you let it alone, it will soon run itself to death. - You can work out a good character faster than calumny can destroy it.  E. Nott
No might nor greatness in mortality can censure 'scape; back wounding calumny the whitest virtue strikes: What king so strong, can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue?  Shakespeare
Opposition and calumny are often the brightest tribute that vice and folly can pay to virtue and wisdom.  Rutherford B. Hayes
The calumniator inflicts wrong by slandering the absent; and he who gives credit to the calumny before he knows it is true, is equally guilty. - The person traduced is doubly injured; by him who propagates, and by him who credits the slander.  Herodotus
The opposite of what is said about people and things is often the truth.  La Bruyere
The upright man, if he suffer calumny to move him, fears the tongue of man more than the eye of God.  Colton
There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage.  Napoleon
Those who ought to be most secure against calumny, are generally those who least escape it.  Stanislaus
To seem disturbed at calumny is the way to make it believed, and stabbing your defamer will not prove you innocent. - Live an exemplary life, and then your good character will overcome and refute the calumny.  Blair
Virtue itself 'scapes not calumnious strokes.  Shakespeare
We cannot control the evil tongues of others, but a good life enables us to despise them.  Cato
When conscience is pure it triumphs o'er bitter malice, o'er dark calumny; but if there be in it one single stain, reproaches beat like hammers in the ears.  Alexander Pushkin
Who stabs my name would stab my person too, did not the hangman's axe lie in the way?  Crown
Comrade-love is as a welding blast of candid flame and ardent temperature: glowing more fervent, it doth bind more fast.  James Jeffrey Roche
Forsooth, brethren, fellowship is heaven and lack of fellowship is hell; fellowship is life and lack of fellowship is death; and the deeds that ye do upon the earth, it is for fellowship's sake that ye do them.  William Morris
The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.  Euripides
The grasp of fellowship which warms us more than wine.  Julia Ward Howe
To disbelieve in marriage is easy; to love a married woman is easy; but to betray a comrade, to be disloyal to a host, to break the covenant of bread and salt, is impossible.  George Bernard Shaw
The need for collecting large campaign funds would vanish if Congress provided an appropriation for the proper and legitimate expenses of each of the great national parties, an appropriation ample enough to meet the necessity for thorough organization and machinery, which requires a large expenditure of money. Then the stipulation should be made that no party receiving campaign funds from the Treasury should accept more than a fixed amount from any individual subscriber or donor; and the necessary publicity for receipts and expenditures could without difficulty be provided.  President Theodore Roosevelt
This is the criminal left that belongs not in a dormitory, but in a penitentiary. The criminal left is not a problem to be solved by the Department of Philosophy or the Department of English - it is a problem for the Department of Justice. Black or white, the criminal left is interested in power. It is not interested in promoting the renewal and reforms that make democracy work; it is interested in promoting those collisions and conflict that tear democracy apart.  Vice President Spiro T. Agnew,
Candor is the brightest gem of criticism.  Disraeli
Candor is the seal of a noble mind, the ornament and pride of man, the sweetest charm of women, the scorn of rascals, and the rarest virtue of sociability.  Sternac
Examine what is said, not him who speaks.  Arabian Proverb
Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other.  G. MacDonald
Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe, bold I can meet, - perhaps may turn his blow! But of all plagues, good Heavens, thy wrath can send, save, save, oh save me from the candid friend!  George Canning
I can promise to be candid, though I may not be impartial.  Goethe
I make it my rule to lay hold of light and embrace it, wherever I see it, though held forth by a child or an enemy.  President Edwards
Innocence in genius and candor in power, are both noble qualities.  Madame de Stael
It is great and manly to disdain disguise; it shows our spirit and proves our strength.  Young
Making my breast transparent as pure crystal, that the world, jealous of me, may see the foulest thought my heart doth hold.  Buckingham
Men should be what they seem; or those that be not, would they might seem none!  Shakespeare
The diligent fostering of a candid habit of mind, even in trifles, is a matter of high monument both to character and opinions.  Howson
Attempt only what you are able to perform.  Cato
We are not all capable of everything.  Virgil [Publius Virgilius Maro]
If you divorce capital from labor, capital is hoarded, and labor starves.  Daniel Webster
It is assumed that labor is available only in connection with capital; that nobody labors unless somebody else, owning capital, somehow by the use of it, induces him to labor. This assumed, it is next considered whether it is best that capital shall hire laborers, and thus induce them to work by their consent. Having proceeded so far, it is naturally concluded that all laborers are either hired laborers or what we call slaves.	Now, there is no such relation between capital and labor as here assumed.  Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.	Abraham Lincoln
It is probably true that business corrupts everything it touches. It corrupts politics, sports, literature, art, labor unions and so on. But business also corrupts and undermines monolithic totalitarianism. Capitalism is at its liberating best in a noncapitalist environment.  Eric Hoffer, "Thoughts of Eric Hoffer, Including: 'Absolute Faith Corrupts Absolutely,'" The New York Times Magazine, April 25, 1971, p. 50.
The market is the place set apart where men may deceive each other.  Anarcharsis
Quoted by Diogenes Laertius.
The number of useful and productive laborers is everywhere in proportion to the quantity of capital stock which is employed in setting them to work and to the particular way in which it is so employed.  Adam Smith
The wage earner relies upon the ventures of confident and contented capital. This failing him, his condition is without alleviation, for he can neither prey on the misfortune of others nor hoard his labor.  Grover Cleveland
Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.  Polish Proverb
You have to choose (as a voter) between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural stability of the honesty and intelligence of the members of the Government. And, with due respect for these gentlemen, I advise you, as long as the Capitalist system lasts, to vote for gold.  George Bernard Shaw, The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism, chapter 55, p. 263 (1928).

After much menutial search for an elligible situation, prompted I may say from a fear of being prejudiced in favour of a first opinion I could discover no one so advantageously to greet the congressional building as is that on the west end of Jenkins heights which stand as a pedestal waiting for a monument, and I am confident, were all the wood cleared from the ground no situation could stand in competition with this. some might perhaps require less labour to be rendered agreeable but after all assistance of arts none ever would be made so grand and all other would appear but of secondary nature.  Pierre Charles L'Enfant, letter to George Washington	This letter contained a description of Capitol Hill, then called Jenkins Hill.
If people see the Capitol going on, it is a sign we intend the Union shall go on.  President Abraham Lincoln. - Carl Sandburg, Abraham Lincoln, vol. 2, p. 535 (1939).  This remark was made in 1863 to John Eaton of Toledo, Ohio, who had talked to Lincoln about "hoisting the statue of Liberty over the Capitol dome, new marble pillars to be installed on the Senate wing, a massive and richly embellished bronze door being made for the main central portal. People were saying it was an extravagance during wartime" (pp. 534-35).
We have built no national temples but the Capitol; we consult no common oracle but the Constitution.  Representative Rufus Choate
It is quite right that there should be a heavy duty on cards; not only on moral grounds; not only because they act on a social party like a torpedo, silencing the merry voice and numbing the play of the features; not only to fill the hunger of the public purse, which is always empty, however much you may put into it; but also because every pack of cards is a malicious libel on courts, and on the world, seeing that the trumpery with number one at the head is the best part of them; and that it gives kings and queens no other companions than knaves.  Southey
It is very wonderful to see persons of the best sense passing hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards with no conversation but what is made up of a few game-phrases, and no other ideas but those of black or red spots arranged together in different figures. Would not a man laugh to hear any one of his species complaining that life is short?  Addison
"Many of our cares," says Scott, "are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges." - We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.  H. W. Beecher
Anxious care rests on a basis of heathen worldly-mindedness, and of heathen misunderstanding of the character of God.  A. Maclaren
Care admitted as a guest, quickly turns to be a master.  Bovee
Care is no cure, but rather a corrosive for things that are not to be remedied.  Shakespeare
Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye; and where care lodges sleep will never lie.  Shakespeare
Cares are often more difficult to throw off than sorrows; the latter die with time; the former grow upon it.  Richter
He that takes his cares on himself loads himself in vain with an uneasy burden. - I will cast my cares on God; he has bidden me; they cannot burden Him.  Joseph Hall
Life's cares are comforts; such by heaven design'd; he that hath none must take them, or be wretched; cares are employments; and without employ the soul is on the rack; the rack of rest, to souls most adverse; action all their joy.  Young
Men do not avail themselves of the riches of God's grace. - They love to nurse their cares, and seem as uneasy without some fret as an old friar would be without his hair girdle. - They are commanded to cast their cares on the Lord; but even when they attempt it, they do not fail to catch them up again, and think it meritorious to walk burdened.  H. W. Beecher
Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is, with thoughts of what may be.  Dryden
Our cares are the mothers not only of our charities and virtues, but of our best joys, and most cheering and enduring pleasures.  Simms
Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten thy rest.  Quarles
The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow; and when we lie down at night we may safely say to most of our troubles, "Ye have done your worst, and we shall see you no more." Cowper
They lose the world who buy it, with much care.  Shakespeare
This world has cares enough to plague us; but he who meditates on others' woe, shall, in that meditation, lose his own.  Cumberland
To carry care to bed, is to sleep with a pack on your back.  Haliburton
We can easily manage, if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed for it. - But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow to the weight before we are required to bear it.  John Newton
Carelessness does more harm than a want of knowledge.  Benjamin Franklin
Take my advice, and never draw caricature. - By the long practice of it I have lost the enjoyment of beauty. - I never see a face but distorted, and never have the satisfaction to behold the human face divine.  Hogarth
I don't care how much you know until I know how much you care.  Author Unknown
I cannot agree that it should be the declared public policy of Illinois that a cat visiting a neighbor's yard or crossing the highways is a public nuisance. It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming. Many live with their owners in apartments or other restricted premises, and I doubt if we want to make their every brief foray an opportunity for a small game hunt by zealous citizens - with traps or otherwise. I am afraid this Bill could only create discord, recrimination and enmity. Also consider the owner's dilemma: To escort a cat abroad on a leash is against the nature of the cat, and to permit it to venture forth for exercise unattended into a night of new dangers is against the nature of the owner. Moreover, cats perform useful service, particularly in rural areas, in combating rodents - work they necessarily perform alone and without regard for property lines. 	 We are all interested in protecting certain varieties of birds. That cats destroy some birds, I well know, but I believe this legislation would further but little the worthy cause to which its proponents give such unselfish effort. The problem of cat versus bird is as old as time. If we attempt to resolve it by legislation who knows but what we may be called upon to take sides as well in the age old problems of dog versus cat, bird versus bird, or even bird versus worm. In my opinion, the State of Illinois and its local governing bodies already have enough to do without trying to control feline delinquency.  Adlai E. Stevenson, governor of Illinois, veto message, April 23, 1949	 This was one of Stevenson's first veto messages. "A small but devoted group of bird-lovers were able to have a bill introduced in the legislature designed to protect birds by restraining cats. In previous years it was passed by one house, only to be turned down by the other. In 1949 it passed both houses and the decision was finally shifted to the Governor. Stevenson's message returning the measure became known as the 'Cat Bill Veto' and received widespread publicity, because of its wit and good humor. On April 27, 1949, the Chicago Daily News stated, 'Many Adlaiphiles immediately proclaimed it one of the noble pronouncements of our time, comparable to the boldest state documents from the pen of F.D.R. or Winston Churchill. Mr. Stevenson did no pussyfooting on pussy's perambulations. He did not seek to make a cat's paw out of the Supreme Court by citing decisions of dubious relevancy. He categorically assumed full responsibility for his momentous decision. He did not assert that the bill's effort to restrict felines to lives of sedentary domesticity was a violation of the Constitution. He invoked a higher law - the law of Nature'." (pp. 72-73).
All diseases of Christians are to be ascribed to demons; chiefly do they torment freshly-baptized Christians, yea, even the guiltless new-born infants.  St. Augustine
I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.  Jonathan Edwards
A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood.  Edmund Burke, letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol
All is to be feared where all is to be lost.  Byron
Caution in crediting, and reserve in speaking, and in revealing one's self to but very few, are the best securities both of a good understanding with the world, and of the inward peace of our own minds.  Thomas A. Kempis
He that is over-cautious will accomplish but very little.  Schiller
I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.  H. W. Beecher
It is well to learn caution by the misfortunes of others.  Publilius Syrus
Look before you leap; see before you go.  Tusser
More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.  Thomson
None pities him that's in the snare, who warned before, would not beware.  Herrick
Open your mouth and purse cautiously, and your stock of wealth and reputation shall, at least in repute, be great.  Zimmermann
Take warning by the misfortunes of others, that others may not take example from you.  Saadi
Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.  Shakespeare
Trust not him that hath once broken faith; he who betrayed thee once, will betray thee again.  Shakespeare
When clouds are seen wise men put on their cloaks.  Shakespeare
When using a needle you move your fingers delicately, and with a wise caution. - Use the same precaution with the inevitable dullness of life. - Give attention; keep yourself from imprudent precipitation; and do not take things by the point.  Rance
Whenever our neighbor's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own. Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security.  Burke
Any test that turns on what is offensive to the community's standards is too loose, too capricious, too destructive of freedom of expression to be squared with the First Amendment. Under that test, juries can censor, suppress, and punish what they don't like, provided the matter relates to "sexual impurity" or has a tendency "to excite lustful thoughts." This is community censorship in one of its worst forms. It creates a regime where in the battle between the literati and the Philistines, the Philistines are certain to win.  Justice William O. Douglas,
Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.  A. Whitney Griswold, president of Yale
I can imagine no greater disservice to the country than to establish a system of censorship that would deny to the people of a free republic like our own their indisputable right to criticise their own public officials. While exercising the great powers of the office I hold, I would regret in a crisis like the one through which we are now passing to lose the benefit of patriotic and intelligent criticism.  President Woodrow Wilson,
I thought the work would be very innocent, and one which might be confided to the reason of any man; not likely to be much read if let alone, but, if persecuted, it will be generally read. Every man in the United States will think it a duty to buy a copy, in vindication of his right to buy, and to read what he pleases.  Thomas Jefferson
The vast number of titles which are published each year - all of them are to the good, even if some of them may annoy or even repel us for a time. For none of us would trade freedom of expression and of ideas for the narrowness of the public censor. America is a free market for people who have something to say, and need not fear to say it.  Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey
False views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for everyone takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness; and when this is done, one path towards error is closed and the road to truth is often at the same time opened.  Charles Darwin
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.  John Milton
No member of a society has the right to teach any doctrine contrary to what the society holds to be true.  Samuel Johnson
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.  Oscar Wilde
The only freedom deserving the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs.  Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest.  John Stuart Mill
To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.  Claude Adrien Helvetius
We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.  John Stuart Mill
All ceremonies are, in themselves, very silly things; but yet a man of the world should know them. - They are the outworks of manners and decency, which would too often be broken in upon, if it were not for that defence which keeps the enemy at a proper distance.  Earl of Chesterfield
Ceremonies differ in every country; they are only artificial helps which ignorance assumes to imitate politeness, which is the result of good sense and good nature.  Goldsmith
Ceremony is the invention of wise men to keep fools at a distance; as good breeding is an expedient to make fools and wise men equals.  Steele
Ceremony resembles that base coin which circulates through a country by royal mandate; it serves every purpose of real money at home, but is entirely useless if carried abroad. - A person who should attempt to circulate his native trash in another country would be thought either ridiculous or culpable.  Goldsmith
Ceremony was devised at first to set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes, and recanting goodness; but where there is true friendship, there needs none.  Shakespeare
If we use no ceremony toward others, we shall be treated without any. - People are soon tired of paying trifling attentions to those who receive them with coldness, and return them with neglect.  Hazlitt
The ceremonies you have seen today are ancient and some of their origins are veiled in the mists of the past, but their spirit and their meaning shine through the ages, never, perhaps, more brightly than now.  Elizabeth II
To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment.  Bulwer
To divest either politics or religion of ceremony, is the most certain method of bringing either into contempt. - The weak must have their inducements to admiration as well as the wise; and it is the business of a sensible government to impress all ranks with a sense of subordination, whether this be effected by a diamond buckle, a virtuous edict, a sumptuary law, or a glass necklace.  Goldsmith
To repose our confidence in forms and ceremonies, is superstition; but not to submit to them is pride or self-conceit.  Pascal
If a man will begin with certainties, he will end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he will end in certainties.  Francis Bacon
There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.  Attributed to Robert Burns. Unverified.
is but the pseudonym of God for those particular cases which he does not choose to subscribe openly with his own sign-manual.  Coleridge
What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!  Jeremy Taylor
Be not too presumptuously sure in any business; for things of this world depend on such a train of unseen chances that if it were in man's hands to set the tables, still he would not be certain to win the game.  Herbert
By the word chance we merely express our ignorance of the cause of any fact or effect - not that we think that chance was itself the cause.  Henry Fergus
Chance generally favors the prudent.  Joubert
Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.  Ovid
Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.  Th'eophile Gautier.
Chance never writ a legible book; never built a fair house; never drew a neat picture; never did any of these things, nor ever will; nor can it, without absurdity, be supposed to do them, which are yet works very gross and rude, and very easy and feasible, as it were, in comparison to the production of a flower or a tree.  Isaac Barrow
He who distrusts the security of chance takes more pains to effect the safety which results from labor. To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says: "Leave no stone unturned." Bulwer
How often events, by chance, and unexpectedly, come to pass, which you had not dared even to hope for!  Terence
In the fields of observation chance favors only those minds which are prepared.  Louis Pasteur
Many shining actions owe their success to chance, though the general or statesman runs away with the applause.  Homer
Objects which are usually the motives of our travels by land and by sea are often overlooked and neglected if they lie under our eye.  We put off from time to time going and seeing what we know we have an opportunity of seeing when we please.  Pliny the Younger
The doctrine of chances is the bible of the fool. There is no doubt such a thing as chance; but I see no reason why Providence should not make use of it.  Simms
The mines of knowledge are often laid bare by the hazel-wand of chance.  Tupper
There is no such thing as chance or accident, the words merely signify our ignorance of some real and immediate cause.  Adam Clarke
There is no such thing as chance; and what seems to us the merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.  Schiller
While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.  Publilius Syrus
Change is the nursery Of musicke, joy, life and eternity.  John Donne (1573-1631)
Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal. Attributed to Arthur Schopenhauer. Unverified.
Change starts when someone sees the next step.	William Drayton
Everything is in a state of change. Thou, thyself art in everlasting change and in corruption to correspond, so is the whole universe.  Marcus Aurelius
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.  Senator Robert F. Kennedy, "Day of Affirmation," 
He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.  Prime Minister Harold Wilson
I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.  Thomas Jefferson, letter to Samuel Kercheval, July 12, 1816
I am not what I was in the reign of the good Cinara. Forbear, cruel mother of sweet loves.  Horace [Quintas Horatius Flaccus]
If a great change is to be made in human affairs, the minds of men will be fitted to it; the general opinions and feelings will draw that way. Every fear and hope will forward it; and they who persist in opposing this mighty current will appear rather to resist the decrees of Providence itself, than the mere designs of men. - They will not be so much resolute and firm as perverse and obstinate.  Burke
In a progressive country change is constant;change is inevitable.  Benjamin Disraeli, speech on Reform Bill of 1867, Edinburgh, Scotland, October 29, 1867.
In this world of change naught which comes stays, and naught which goes is lost.  Madame Swetchine
It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.  Publilius Syrus
It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gate of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task.  Virgil [Publius Virgilius Maro]
It is not strange that even our loves should change with our fortunes.  Shakespeare
It is the first step in sociological wisdom, to recognize that the major advances in civilization are processes which all but wreck the societies in which they occur: - like unto an arrow in the hand of a child. The art of free society consists first in the maintenance of the symbolic code; and secondly in fearlessness of revision, to secure that the code serves those purposes which satisfy an enlightened reason. Those societies which cannot combine reverence to their symbols with freedom of revision, must ultimately decay either from anarchy, or from the slow atrophy of a life stifled by useless shadows.
Alfred North Whitehead, Symbolism, Its Meaning and Effect, chapter 3, p. 88 (1927). This paragraph ends the book.
It was a wine jar when the molding began: as the wheel runs round why does it turn out a water pitcher?  Horace [Quintas Horatius Flaccus]
Look abroad thro' Nature's range.	Nature's mighty law is change.	Let Not Women E'er Complain.	Robert Burns
Never change when love has found its home.  Sextus Aurelius Propertius
Perfection is immutable, but for things imperfect, to change is the way to perfect them. - Constancy without knowledge cannot be always good; and in things ill, it is not virtue but an absolute vice.  Feltham
Remember the wheel of Providence is always in motion; and the spoke that is uppermost will be under; and therefore mix trembling always with your joy.  Philip Henry
The circumstances of the world are so variable, that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one.  William H. Seward
The flow of the river is ceaseless and its water is never the same. The bubbles that float in the pools, now vanishing, now forming, are not of long duration: so in the world are man and his dwellings. [People] die in the morning, they are born in the evening, like foam on the water.  Kamo No Chomei
God is still on His throne, we're still on His footstool and there only a knee's distance between.  Jim Elliot
Here's my  strategy on the Cold War: We  win, they lose.  Ronald Reagan 
The most  terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and  I'm here to help.  Ronald Reagan 
The trouble  with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant: It's just that they  know so much that isn't so.  Ronald Reagan 
Of  the four wars in my lifetime none came about because the U.S. was too strong.  Ronald Reagan 
I  have wondered at times about what the Ten Commandment's would have looked  like if Moses had run them through the U.S. Congress.  Ronald Reagan 
The taxpayer:  That's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to  take the civil service examination.  Ronald Reagan 
Government is  like a baby: An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no  sense of responsibility at the other. Ronald Reagan 
The nearest  thing to eternal life we will ever see on this earth is a government  program.  Ronald Reagan 
I've laid down the law, though, to everyone from now on about anything that happens: no matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of  a Cabinet meeting.  Ronald Reagan 
It has been  said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it  bears a striking resemblance to the first.  Ronald Reagan 
Government's  view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it  moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving,  subsidize it.  Ronald Reagan 
Politics is  not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you  disgrace yourself you can always write a book.  Ronald Reagan  
No arsenal, or  no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.  Ronald Reagan  
If we ever  forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone  under.  Ronald Reagan 
On the path less traveled, there are a lot fewer ruts.
We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness - That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed. The Declaration of Independence
The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for, among old parchments, or musty records. They are written, as with a sun beam in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power. Alexander Hamilton
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion...Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. John Adams
Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers. John Jay, First Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
Upon my arrival in the United States, the religious aspect of the country was the first thing that struck my attention...The Americans combine the notions of Christianity and of liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive the one without the other. Alexis de Tocqueville, French Historian
The religion which has introduced civil liberty, is the religion of Christ and his apostles, which enjoins humility, piety and benevolence; which acknowledges in every person a brother, or a sister, and a citizen with equal rights. This is genuine Christianity, and to this we owe our free constitutions of government.  Noah Webster
And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever. Thomas Jefferson
Of all the dispositions and habits, which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle. George Washington 
Those people who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants. William Penn
The Almighty God has blessed our land in many ways. He has given our people stout hearts and strong arms with which to strike mighty blows for freedom and truth. He has given to our country a faith which has become the hope of all peoples in an anguished world. Franklin D. Roosevelt
The right to freedom being the gift of the Almighty...The rights of the colonists as Christians...may be best understood by reading and carefully studying the institution of The Great Law Giver and Head of the Christian Church, which are to be found clearly written and promulgated in the New Testament. Samuel Adams
I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. What I can do, I should do and, with the help of God, I will do! Everett Hale, Chaplain of the United States Senate
Almighty God...I yield thee humble and hearty thanks that thou has preserved me from the danger of the night past, and brought me to the light of the day, and the comforts thereof, a day which is consecrated to thine own service and for thine own honor. Let my heart, therefore, Gracious God, be so affected with the glory and majesty of it, that I may not do mine own works, but wait on thee, and discharge those weighty duties thou requirest of me. Give me grace to hear thee calling on me in thy word, that it may be wisdom, righteousness, reconciliation and peace to the saving of the soul in the day of the Lord Jesus. Grant that I may hear it with reverence, receive it with meekness, mingle it with faith, and that it may accomplish in me, Gracious God, the good work for which thou has sent it. Bless my family, kindred, friends and country, be our God and guide this day and for ever for His sake, who lay down in the Grave and arose again for us, Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen. From the Prayer Journal of George Washington
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy people enough to make it worth the effort.  Herm Albright (1876-1944)
Brotherhood is, in essence, a hope on the road - the long road - to fulfillment. To claim it to be already a full-grown fact is to be guilty of hypocrisy. To admit it to be always a fiction is to be guilty of cynicism. Let us avoid both.  T. V. Smith
However degraded or wretched a fellow mortal may be, he is still a member of our common species.  Seneca
If God is thy father, man is thy brother.  Lamartine
Jesus throws down the dividing prejudices of nationality, and teaches universal love, without distinction of race, merit, or rank. - A man's neighbor is everyone that needs help.  J. C. Geikie
Our doctrine of equality, liberty and humanity comes from our belief in the brotherhood of man, through the fatherhood of God.  Calvin Coolidge
Speak not too well of one who scarce will know Himself transfigured in its roseate glow; Say kindly of him what is, chiefly, true, Remembering always he belongs to you; Deal with him as a truant, if you will, but claim him, keep him, call him brother still!  Oliver Wendell Holmes, "Poem," read at a dinner given for the author by the medical profession of the City of New York, April 12, 1883. - The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, ed. Eleanor M. Tilton, p. 71 (1895, rev. 1975).
The brotherhood of man is an integral part of Christianity no less than the Fatherhood of God; and to deny the one is no less infidel than to deny the other.  Lymann Abbott
The crest and crowning of all good, life's final star, is Brotherhood.  Edwin Markham
The mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one.  Thomas Carlyle
The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. - We cannot exist without mutual help. All, therefore, that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellowmen; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.  Walter Scott
The sixteenth century said, "Responsibility to God." - The present nineteenth says, "The brotherhood of man." C. L. Thompson
The universe is but one great city, full of beloved ones, divine and human, by nature endeared to each other.  Epictetus
There is a destiny that makes us brothers: None goes his way alone:
All that we send into the lives of others, Comes back onto our own.  Edwin Markham, "A Creed," stanza 1, Poems of Edwin Markham, p. 18 (1950).
There is no brotherhood of man without the fatherhood of God.  H. M. Field
To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization.  Abraham Lincoln
To live is not to live for one's self alone; let us help one another.  Menander
Until you have become really in actual fact a brother of everyone, brotherhood will not come to pass. Only by brotherhood will liberty be saved.  Fyodor Dostoevski
Until you have become really, in actual fact, as brother to everyone, brotherhood will not come to pass.  Fyodor Dostoyevski (1821-1881)
We are members of one great body, planted by nature in a mutual love, and fitted for a social life. - We must consider that we were born for the good of the whole.  Seneca
We must love men ere they will seem to us worthy of our love.  Shakespeare
A speck of dust may clog the works of a watch; mere stones derail the fastest train; little ship-worms sink the proudest schooner; Marine vermin contrive to destroy the mightiest dikes.  Author Unknown
He that is fond of building will soon ruin himself without the help of enemies.  Plutarch
Never build after you are five-and-forty; have five years' income in hand before you lay a brick; and always calculate the expense at double the estimate.  Kett
Something men have that half-gods never know, the power to sensitize cold, lifeless things; to make stones breathe, and out of metal grow escarpments that deny the need of wings.  Virginia McCormick
They go to the forest for palm or pine, the stuff for the humbler homes; the mountain gives up its valued gifts, for the stately spires and domes; but whether they work with marble or sod, the builder is hand-in-hand with God.  William Dunbar
If we could look inside the other person at scars from the battles he has lost, our own scars would weigh less heavy.  Joshua Riebman
Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.  Honore de Balzac
But it is not by the consolidation, or concentration, of powers, but by their distribution that good government is effected.  Thomas Jefferson
I do not rule Russia; ten thousand clerks do.  Nicholas I
We trained hard, but every time we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing inefficiency and demoralization.  Petronius
Business A business consultant is a person who knows much less about your business than you do yourself, but who is prepared to advise you how to run it, for a fee which your business could not possibly afford to pay even if it was run properly instead of according to his advice.  John Roughton Simpson
A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.  Howard Scott
After all, the chief business of the American people is business.  President Calvin Coolidge, address before the American Society of Newspaper Editors, Washington, D.C., January 17, 1925. - Coolidge, Foundations of the Republic, p. 187 (1926).  Usually misquoted as: "The business of America is business."
After all, what the worker does is buy back from those who finance him the goods that he himself produces. Pay him a wage that enables him to buy, and you fill your market with ready consumers.  James J. Davis
All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgments of probabilities, and not on certainties.  Charles W. Eliot
An excellent monument might be erected to the Unknown Stockholder. It might take the form of a solid stone ark of faith apparently floating in a pool of water.  Felix Riesenberg
Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to make a better article.  Alice Hubbard
As we view the achievements of aggregated capital, we discover the existence of trusts, combinations, and monopolies, while the citizen is struggling far in the rear or is trampled to death beneath an iron heel. Corporations, which should be the restrained creatures of the law and the servants of the people, are fast becoming the people's masters.  Grover Cleveland Annual Message to Congress, 1888.
Big business is a superior economic tool by which to provide those things that constitute the physical basis of living (Also) in bigness we have the material foundation of a society which can further the highest values known to men, values we describe as "spiritual." David E. Lilienthal
Big Business is basic to the very life of this country; and yet many - perhaps most - Americans have a deep-seated fear and an emotional repugnance to it. Here is a monumental contradiction.  David E. Lilienthal
Business is a combination of war and sport.  Andre Maurois
Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching for what it gets.  Henry Ford
Business may not be the noblest pursuit, but it is true that men are bringing to it some of the qualities which actuate the explorer, scientist, artist: the zest, the open-mindedness, even the disinterestedness, with which the scientific investigator explores some field of pure research.  Earnest Elmo Calkins
Business needs more of the professional spirit. The professional spirit seeks professional integrity, from pride, not from compulsion. The professional spirit detects its own violations and penalizes them.  Henry Ford
Business will continue to go where invited and remain where appreciated.  Author Unknown
Business without profit is not business any more than a pickle is candy.  Charles F. Abbott
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.  Ambrose Bierce
Do other men for they would do you. That's the true business precept.  Charles Dickens
Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.  Bovee
Free competition, though within certain limits just and productive of good results, cannot be the ruling principle of the economic world.  Pope Pius XI
I remember that a wise friend of mine did usually say, "That which is everybody's business is nobody's business." Izaak Walton
I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than is this incessant business.  Henry David Thoreau
If the Golden Rule is to be preached at all in these modern days, when so much of our life is devoted to business, it must be preached especially in its application to the conduct of business.  Ferdinand S. Schenck
If there must always be a laboring population distinct from proprietors and employers, we regard the slave system as decidedly preferable to the system at wages.  Orestes A. Brownson
In our days not alone is wealth accumulated, but immense power and despotic economic domination is concentrated in the hands of a few, and that those few are for the most part not the owners, but only the trustees and directors of invested funds, who administer them at their good pleasure so that no one dare breathe against their will.  Pope Pius XI
Let every man mind his own business.  Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote, pt. I, III, 8, 157
Love of bustle is not industry.  Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Markets as well as mobs respond to human emotions; markets as well as mobs can be inflamed to their own destruction.  Owen D. Young
Men of great parts are of the unfortunate in the management of public business, because they are apt to go out of the common road by the quickness of their imagination.  Swift
Method goes far to prevent Trouble in Business: For it makes the Task easy, hinders Confusion, saves abundance of Time, and instructs those that have Business depending, both what to do and what to hope.  William Penn, Some Fruits of Solitude in Reflections & Maxims
Most are engaged in business the greater part of their lives, because the soul abhors a vacuum and they have not discovered any continuous employment for man's nobler faculties.  Henry David Thoreau
Most of those who say so easily that this is our way out do not, I am convinced, understand that fundamental changes of attitude, new disciplines, revised legal structures, unaccustomed limitations on activity, are all necessary if we are to plan. This amounts, in fact, to the abandonment, finally, of laissez faire. it amounts, practically, to the abolition of "business." Rexford G. Tugwell, "The Principle of Planning and the institution of Laissez Faire," paper presented at the 44th annual meeting of the American Economic Association. - The American Economic Review, vol. 22, no. 1, supplement, March 1932, p. 76.
Not because of any extraordinary talents did he succeed, but because he had a capacity on a level for business and not above it.  Tacitus
One aspect of modern life which has gone far to stifle men is the rapid growth of tremendous corporations. Enormous spiritual sacrifices are made in the transformation of shopkeepers into employees. The disappearance of free enterprise has led to a submergence of the individual in the impersonal corporation in much the same manner as he has been submerged in the state in other lands.  William O. Douglas, chairman, Securities and Exchange Commission, speech at annual dinner of Fordham University Alumni Association, New York City, February 9, 1939. - James Allen, Democracy and Finance, p. 291 (1940, reprinted 1969).  This was Douglas's last speech before his appointment to the Supreme Court.
So the question is, do corporate executives, provided they stay within the law, have responsibilities in their business activities other than to make as much money for their stockholders as possible? And my answer to that is, no they do not.  Milton Friedman, interview with John McClaughry, contributing editor of Business and Society Review, on the topic of corporate social responsibility. - "Milton Friedman Responds," Chemtech, February 1974, p. 72.
Some day the ethics of business will be universally recognized, and in that day Business will be seen to be the oldest and most useful of all the professions.  Henry Ford
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude than by mental capacities.  Walter Dill Scott
Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.  Aldus Manutius Placard on the door of the Aldine Press, Venice, established
That I should make him that steals my coat a present of my cloak - what would become of business?  Katharine Lee Bates
The "tired business man" is one whose business is usually not a successful one.  Senator Joseph R. Grundy
The art of winning in business is in working hard - not taking things too seriously.  Elbert Hubbard
The best mental effort in the game of business is concentrated on the major problem of securing the consumer's dollar before the other fellow gets it.  Stuart Chase
The lawyer and the doctor and other professional men have often a touch of civilization. The banker and the merchant seldom.  Jim Tully
The man who is above his business may one day find his business above him.  Drew
The manufacturer who waits in the woods for the world to beat a path to his door, is a great optimist. But the manufacturer who shows his "mousetraps" to the world keeps the smoke coming out of his chimney.  O. B. Winters
The musician, the painter, the poet, are, in a larger sense, no greater artists than the man of commerce.  W. S. Maverick
The old days of "caveat emptor" - let the buyer beware - are gone.  Alvan Macauley
The substance of the eminent Socialist gentleman's speech is that making a profit is a sin, but it is my belief that the real sin is taking a loss.  Winston Churchill, remarks in the House of Commons responding to a Laborite speech on the evils of free enterprise. - James C. Humes, Speaker's Treasury of Anecdotes About the Famous, p. 45 (1978). Unverified.
The trusts and combinations - the communism of self - whose machinations have prevented us from reaching the success we deserved, should not be forgotten nor forgiven.  President Grover Cleveland, letter to Representative Thomas C. Catchings, August 27, 1894. - Letters of Grover Cleveland, 1850-1908, ed. Allan Nevins, p. 365 (1933).
The way to stop financial "joy-riding" is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.  Woodrow Wilson
There is now scarcely any outlet for energy in this country except business.  But it was men of another stamp than this that made England what it is; and men of another stamp will be needed to prevent its decline.  John Stuart Mill
To business that we love, we rise betimes, and go to it with delight.  Shakespeare
To manage a business successfully requires as much courage as that possessed by the soldier who goes to war. Business courage is the more natural because all the benefits which the public has in material wealth come from it.  Charles F. Abbott
We believe that there is one economic lesson which our twentieth century experience has demonstrated conclusively - that America can no more survive and grow without big business than it can survive and grow without small business. the two are inter-dependent. You cannot strengthen one by weakening the other, and you cannot add to the stature of a dwarf by cutting off the legs of a giant.  Benjamin Franklin Fairless,president of United States Steel Corporation, testimony, April 26, 1950. - Study of Monopoly Power, hearings before the Subcommittee on Study of Monopoly Power of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, 81st Congress, 2d session, part 4A, "Steel" p. 466 (1950).
We demand that big business give people a square deal; in return we must insist that when anyone engaged in big business honestly endeavours to do right, he shall himself be given a square deal.  Theodore Roosevelt
Wealthy owners and all masters of labor should be mindful of this: that to exercise pressure upon the indigent and the destitute for the sake of gain, and to gather one's profit out of the need of another, is condemned by all laws, human and divine.  Pope Leo XIII
When nations grow old the Arts grow cold And Commerce settles on every tree.  William Blake
I never knew any one to interfere with other people's disputes, but that he heartily repented of it.  Lord Carlisle
Nobody ever pries into another man's concerns, but with a design to do, or to be able to do him a mischief.  South
One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.  Pope
"But" is a word that cools many a warm impulse, stifles many a kindly thought, puts a dead stop to many a brotherly deed. - No one would ever love his neighbor as himself if he listened to all the "buts" that could be said.  Bulwer
I do not like "But yet" - It does allay the good precedence. - Fie upon "but yet." - "But yet" is as a jailer, to bring forth some monstrous malefactor.  Shakespeare
Oh, now comes that bitter word - but, which makes all nothing that was said before, that smooths and wounds, that strikes and dashes more than a flat denial, or a plain disgrace.  Daniel
The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a "but." H. W. Beecher
A trouble is a trouble, and the general idea, in the country, is to treat it as such, rather than to snatch the knotted cords from the hand of God and deal out murderous blows.  William McFee
Calamity is man's true touchstone.  Beaumont and Fletcher
Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves.  Davenant
If we take sinful means to avoid calamity, that very often brings it upon us.  Wall
It is only from the belief of the goodness and wisdom of a supreme being, that our calamities can be borne in the manner which becomes a man.  Mackenzie
When any calamity has been suffered, the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.  Johnson
The Senator says the territory of California is three times greater than the average extent of the new States of the Union. Well, Sir, suppose it is. We all know that it has more than three times as many mountains, inaccessible and rocky hills, and sandy wastes, as are possessed by any State of the Union. But how much is there of useful land? how much that may be made to contribute to the support of man and of society? These ought to be the questions. Well, with respect to that, I am sure that everybody has become satisfied that, although California may have a very great sea-board, and a large city or two, yet that the agricultural products of the whole surface now are not, and never will be, equal to one half part of those of the State of Illinois; no, nor yet a fourth, or perhaps a tenth part.  Senator Daniel Webster, remarks in the Senate on admitting California into the Union, June 27, 1850. - The Writings and Speeches of Daniel Webster, vol. 10, p. 130 (1903).
What was the use of my having come from Oakland it was not natural to have come from there yes write about it if I like or anything if I like but not there, there is no there there.  Gertrude Stein, Everybody's Autobiography, p. 289 (1937, reprinted 1971).
At every word, a reputation dies.  Pope
Back-wounding, calumny the whitest virtue strikes.  Shakespeare
Be thou chaste as ice, and pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.  Shakespeare
Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it.  Penn
Calumny crosses oceans, scales mountains, and traverses deserts with greater ease than the Scythian Abaris, and, like him, rides upon a poisoned arrow.  Colton
Calumny is like the wasp that worries you, which it is not best to try to get rid of unless you are sure of slaying it; for otherwise it returns to the charge more furious than ever.  Chamfort
Close thine ear against him that opens his mouth against another. - If thou receive not his words, they fly back and wound him. - If thou receive them, they flee forward and wound thee.  Quarles
False praise can please, and calumny affright, none but the vicious and the hypocrite.  Horace
He that lends an easy and credulous ear to calumny, is either a man of very ill morals, or he has no more sense and understanding than a child.  Menander
I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me. - It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.  Ben Jonson
I never listen to calumnies; because, if they are untrue, I run the risk of being deceived; and if they are true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.  Montesquieu
I never think it needful to regard calumnies; they are sparks, which, if you do not blow them, will go out of themselves.  Boerhave
Neglected calumny soon expires; show that you are hurt, and you give it the appearance of truth.  Tacitus
Never cause a lie; if you let it alone, it will soon run itself to death. - You can work out a good character faster than calumny can destroy it.  E. Nott
No might nor greatness in mortality can censure 'scape; back wounding calumny the whitest virtue strikes: What king so strong, can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue?  Shakespeare
Opposition and calumny are often the brightest tribute that vice and folly can pay to virtue and wisdom.  Rutherford B. Hayes
The calumniator inflicts wrong by slandering the absent; and he who gives credit to the calumny before he knows it is true, is equally guilty. - The person traduced is doubly injured; by him who propagates, and by him who credits the slander.  Herodotus
The opposite of what is said about people and things is often the truth.  La Bruyere
The upright man, if he suffer calumny to move him, fears the tongue of man more than the eye of God.  Colton
There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage.  Napoleon
Those who ought to be most secure against calumny, are generally those who least escape it.  Stanislaus
To seem disturbed at calumny is the way to make it believed, and stabbing your defamer will not prove you innocent. - Live an exemplary life, and then your good character will overcome and refute the calumny.  Blair
Virtue itself 'scapes not calumnious strokes.  Shakespeare
We cannot control the evil tongues of others, but a good life enables us to despise them.  Cato
When conscience is pure it triumphs o'er bitter malice, o'er dark calumny; but if there be in it one single stain, reproaches beat like hammers in the ears.  Alexander Pushkin
Who stabs my name would stab my person too, did not the hangman's axe lie in the way?  Crown
Comrade-love is as a welding blast of candid flame and ardent temperature: glowing more fervent, it doth bind more fast.  James Jeffrey Roche
Forsooth, brethren, fellowship is heaven and lack of fellowship is hell; fellowship is life and lack of fellowship is death; and the deeds that ye do upon the earth, it is for fellowship's sake that ye do them.  William Morris
The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.  Euripides
The grasp of fellowship which warms us more than wine.  Julia Ward Howe
To disbelieve in marriage is easy; to love a married woman is easy; but to betray a comrade, to be disloyal to a host, to break the covenant of bread and salt, is impossible.  George Bernard Shaw
Groups like ours are potentially very dangerous to the political process. We could be a menace, yes. Ten independent expenditure groups, for example, could amass this great amount of money and defeat the point of accountability in politics. We could say whatever we want about an opponent of a Senator Smith and the senator wouldn't have to say anything. A group like ours could lie through its teeth and the candidate it helps stays clean.  John Terry Dolan, as reported by The Washington Post, August 10, 1980, p. F1.  Dolan, chairman of the National Conservative Political Action Committee (NCPAC), later claimed this remark was taken out of context, since he was speaking of a hypothetical situation.
The need for collecting large campaign funds would vanish if Congress provided an appropriation for the proper and legitimate expenses of each of the great national parties, an appropriation ample enough to meet the necessity for thorough organization and machinery, which requires a large expenditure of money. Then the stipulation should be made that no party receiving campaign funds from the Treasury should accept more than a fixed amount from any individual subscriber or donor; and the necessary publicity for receipts and expenditures could without difficulty be provided.  President Theodore Roosevelt, annual message to Congress, December 3, 1907. - State Papers as Governor and President, 1899-1909 (vol. 17 of The Works of Theodore Roosevelt, national ed.), p. 461 (1926).
In several educational institutions during the last few years manifestation of student activity in riots has been exciting the country. To the conservative mind, these riots bode no good. As a matter of fact student riots of one sort or another, protests against the order that is, kicks against college and university management indicate a healthy growth and a normal functioning of the academic mind.  Youth should be radical. Youth should demand change in the world. Youth should not accept the old order if the world is to move on. But the old orders should not be moved easily - certainly not at the mere whim or behest of youth. There must be clash and if youth hasn't enough force or fervor to produce the clash the world grows stale and stagnant and sour in decay. If our colleges and universities do not breed men who riot, who rebel, who attack life with all the youthful vim and vigor, then there is something wrong with our colleges. The more riots that come on college campuses, the better world for tomorrow.  William Allen White, "Student Riots," editorial, The Emporia (Kansas) Gazette, April 8, 1932.  - White, Forty Years on Main Street, comp. Russell H. Fitzgibbon, p. 331 (1937).
This is the criminal left that belongs not in a dormitory, but in a penitentiary. The criminal left is not a problem to be solved by the Department of Philosophy or the Department of English - it is a problem for the Department of Justice. Black or white, the criminal left is interested in power. It is not interested in promoting the renewal and reforms that make democracy work; it is interested in promoting those collisions and conflict that tear democracy apart.  Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, speech at a Florida Republican dinner, Fort Lauder-dale, Florida, April 28, 1970.  - Collected Speeches of Spiro Agnew, p. 135 (1971).
You think of those kids out there. I say "kids." I have seen them. They are the greatest. You see these bums, you know blowing up the campuses. Listen, the boys that are on the college campuses today are the luckiest people in the world, going to the greatest universities, and here they are burning up the books, I mean storming around about this issue - I mean you name it - get rid of the war; there will be another one. Out there we've got kids who are just doing their duty. I have seen them. They stand tall, and they are proud. I am sure they are scared. I was when I was there. But when it really comes down to it, they stand up and, boy, you have to talk up to those men. And they are going to do fine; we've got to stand back of them.  President Richard M. Nixon, informal conversation with one of a group of employees who had gathered in a corridor to greet him at the Pentagon, May 1, 1970. - The Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard Nixon, 1970, p. 417, footnote 1.
Candor is the brightest gem of criticism.  Disraeli
Candor is the seal of a noble mind, the ornament and pride of man, the sweetest charm of women, the scorn of rascals, and the rarest virtue of sociability.  Sternac
Examine what is said, not him who speaks.  Arabian Proverb
Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other.  G. MacDonald
Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe, bold I can meet, - perhaps may turn his blow! But of all plagues, good Heavens, thy wrath can send, save, save, oh save me from the candid friend!  George Canning
I can promise to be candid, though I may not be impartial.  Goethe
I make it my rule to lay hold of light and embrace it, wherever I see it, though held forth by a child or an enemy.  President Edwards
Innocence in genius and candor in power, are both noble qualities.  Madame de Stael
It is great and manly to disdain disguise; it shows our spirit and proves our strength.  Young
Making my breast transparent as pure crystal, that the world, jealous of me, may see the foulest thought my heart doth hold.  Buckingham
Men should be what they seem; or those that be not, would they might seem none!  Shakespeare
The diligent fostering of a candid habit of mind, even in trifles, is a matter of high monument both to character and opinions.  Howson
Attempt only what you are able to perform.  Cato Distichia
We are not all capable of everything.  Virgil [Publius Virgilius Maro] Elogues, VIII, 63
The perfecting of machinery is making human labor superfluous. Thus it comes about, to quote Marx, that machinery becomes the most powerful weapon in the war of capital against the working class; that the instruments of labor constantly tear the means of the subsistence out of the hands of the laborer; that the very product of the worker is turned into an instrument for his subjugation.  Friedrich Engels (1820-1895) Anti-Duhring (1878)
If you divorce capital from labor, capital is hoarded, and labor starves.  Daniel Webster
It is assumed that labor is available only in connection with capital; that nobody labors unless somebody else, owning capital, somehow by the use of it, induces him to labor. This assumed, it is next considered whether it is best that capital shall hire laborers, and thus induce them to work by their consent. Having proceeded so far, it is naturally concluded that all laborers are either hired laborers or what we call slaves.  Now, there is no such relation between capital and labor as here assumed.  Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.  Abraham Lincoln
It is probably true that business corrupts everything it touches. It corrupts politics, sports, literature, art, labor unions and so on. But business also corrupts and undermines monolithic totalitarianism. Capitalism is at its liberating best in a noncapitalist environment.  Eric Hoffer, "Thoughts of Eric Hoffer, Including: 'Absolute Faith Corrupts Absolutely,'" The New York Times Magazine, April 25, 1971, p. 50.
The market is the place set apart where men may deceive each other.  Anarcharsis Quoted by Diogenes Laertius.
The number of useful and productive laborers is everywhere in proportion to the quantity of capital stock which is employed in setting them to work and to the particular way in which it is so employed.  Adam Smith The Wealth of Nations
The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.  Karl Marx
The wage earner relies upon the ventures of confident and contented capital. This failing him, his condition is without alleviation, for he can neither prey on the misfortune of others nor hoard his labor.  Grover Cleveland Message, August 8, 1893.
Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.  Polish Proverb
When commercial capital occupies a position of unquestioned ascendancy, it everywhere constitutes a system of plunder.  Karl Marx Das Kapital
You have to choose (as a voter) between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural stability of the honesty and intelligence of the members of the Government. And, with due respect for these gentlemen, I advise you, as long as the Capitalist system lasts, to vote for gold.  George Bernard Shaw, The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism, chapter 55, p. 263 (1928).  In the "Foreword for American Readers" Shaw says, "Finally, I have been asked whether there are any intelligent women in America. There must be; for politically the men there are such futile gossips that the United States could not possibly carry on unless there were some sort of practical intelligence back of them. But I will let you into a secret which bears on this point. By this book I shall get at the American men through the American women" (p. xi).
After much menutial search for an elligible situation, prompted I may say from a fear of being prejudiced in favour of a first opinion I could discover no one so advantageously to greet the congressional building as is that on the west end of Jenkins heights which stand as a pedestal waiting for a monument, and I am confident, were all the wood cleared from the ground no situation could stand in competition with this. some might perhaps require less labour to be rendered agreeable but after all assistance of arts none ever would be made so grand and all other would appear but of secondary nature.  Pierre Charles L'Enfant, letter to George Washington, June 22, 1791. - Records of the Columbia Historical Society, vol. 2, p. 35 (1899).  This letter contained a description of Capitol Hill, then called Jenkins Hill.
If people see the Capitol going on, it is a sign we intend the Union shall go on.  President Abraham Lincoln. - Carl Sandburg, Abraham Lincoln, vol. 2, p. 535 (1939).  This remark was made in 1863 to John Eaton of Toledo, Ohio, who had talked to Lincoln about "hoisting the statue of Liberty over the Capitol dome, new marble pillars to be installed on the Senate wing, a massive and richly embellished bronze door being made for the main central portal. People were saying it was an extravagance during wartime" (pp. 534-35).
We have built no national temples but the Capitol; we consult no common oracle but the Constitution.  Representative Rufus Choate, "The importance of Illustrating New-England History by a Series of Romances like the Waverley Novels" lecture delivered at Salem, Massachusetts, 1833. - Samuel Gilman Brown, The Works of Rufus Choate with a Memoir of His Life, vol. 1, p. 345 (1862).
It is quite right that there should be a heavy duty on cards; not only on moral grounds; not only because they act on a social party like a torpedo, silencing the merry voice and numbing the play of the features; not only to fill the hunger of the public purse, which is always empty, however much you may put into it; but also because every pack of cards is a malicious libel on courts, and on the world, seeing that the trumpery with number one at the head is the best part of them; and that it gives kings and queens no other companions than knaves.  Southey
It is very wonderful to see persons of the best sense passing hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards with no conversation but what is made up of a few game-phrases, and no other ideas but those of black or red spots arranged together in different figures. Would not a man laugh to hear any one of his species complaining that life is short?  Addison
"Many of our cares," says Scott, "are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges." - We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.  H. W. Beecher
Anxious care rests on a basis of heathen worldly-mindedness, and of heathen misunderstanding of the character of God.  A. Maclaren
Care admitted as a guest, quickly turns to be a master.  Bovee
Care is no cure, but rather a corrosive for things that are not to be remedied.  Shakespeare
Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye; and where care lodges sleep will never lie.  Shakespeare
Cares are often more difficult to throw off than sorrows; the latter die with time; the former grow upon it.  Richter
He that takes his cares on himself loads himself in vain with an uneasy burden. - I will cast my cares on God; he has bidden me; they cannot burden Him.  Joseph Hall
Life's cares are comforts; such by heaven design'd; he that hath none must take them, or be wretched; cares are employments; and without employ the soul is on the rack; the rack of rest, to souls most adverse; action all their joy.  Young
Men do not avail themselves of the riches of God's grace. - They love to nurse their cares, and seem as uneasy without some fret as an old friar would be without his hair girdle. - They are commanded to cast their cares on the Lord; but even when they attempt it, they do not fail to catch them up again, and think it meritorious to walk burdened.  H. W. Beecher
Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is, with thoughts of what may be.  Dryden
Our cares are the mothers not only of our charities and virtues, but of our best joys, and most cheering and enduring pleasures.  Simms
The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow; and when we lie down at night we may safely say to most of our troubles, "Ye have done your worst, and we shall see you no more." Cowper They lose the world who buy it, with much care.  Shakespeare
This world has cares enough to plague us; but he who meditates on others' woe, shall, in that meditation, lose his own.  Cumberland
To carry care to bed, is to sleep with a pack on your back.  Haliburton
We can easily manage, if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed for it. - But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow to the weight before we are required to bear it.  John Newton
Carelessness does more harm than a want of knowledge.  Benjamin Franklin
Take my advice, and never draw caricature. - By the long practice of it I have lost the enjoyment of beauty. - I never see a face but distorted, and never have the satisfaction to behold the human face divine.  Hogarth
I don't care how much you know until I know how much you care.  Author Unknown
I cannot agree that it should be the declared public policy of Illinois that a cat visiting a neighbor's yard or crossing the highways is a public nuisance. It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming. Many live with their owners in apartments or other restricted premises, and I doubt if we want to make their every brief foray an opportunity for a small game hunt by zealous citizens - with traps or otherwise. I am afraid this Bill could only create discord, recrimination and enmity. Also consider the owner's dilemma: To escort a cat abroad on a leash is against the nature of the cat, and to permit it to venture forth for exercise unattended into a night of new dangers is against the nature of the owner. Moreover, cats perform useful service, particularly in rural areas, in combating rodents - work they necessarily perform alone and without regard for property lines.
We are all interested in protecting certain varieties of birds. That cats destroy some birds, I well know, but I believe this legislation would further but little the worthy cause to which its proponents give such unselfish effort. The problem of cat versus bird is as old as time. If we attempt to resolve it by legislation who knows but what we may be called upon to take sides as well in the age old problems of dog versus cat, bird versus bird, or even bird versus worm. In my opinion, the State of Illinois and its local governing bodies already have enough to do without trying to control feline delinquency.  Adlai E. Stevenson, governor of Illinois, veto message, April 23, 1949. - The Papers of Adlai E. Stevenson, ed. Walter Johnson, vol. 3, pp. 73-74 (1973).	This was one of Stevenson's first veto messages. "A small but devoted group of bird-lovers were able to have a bill introduced in the legislature designed to protect birds by restraining cats. In previous years it was passed by one house, only to be turned down by the other. In 1949 it passed both houses and the decision was finally shifted to the Governor. Stevenson's message returning the measure became known as the 'Cat Bill Veto' and received widespread publicity, because of its wit and good humor. On April 27, 1949, the Chicago Daily News stated, 'Many Adlaiphiles immediately proclaimed it one of the noble pronouncements of our time, comparable to the boldest state documents from the pen of F.D.R. or Winston Churchill. Mr. Stevenson did no pussyfooting on pussy's perambulations. He did not seek to make a cat's paw out of the Supreme Court by citing decisions of dubious relevancy. He categorically assumed full responsibility for his momentous decision. He did not assert that the bill's effort to restrict felines to lives of sedentary domesticity was a violation of the Constitution. He invoked a higher law - the law of Nature'." (pp. 72-73).
All diseases of Christians are to be ascribed to demons; chiefly do they torment freshly-baptized Christians, yea, even the guiltless new-born infants.  St. Augustine
I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.  Jonathan Edwards
A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood.  Edmund Burke, letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol
All is to be feared where all is to be lost.  Byron
Caution in crediting, and reserve in speaking, and in revealing one's self to but very few, are the best securities both of a good understanding with the world, and of the inward peace of our own minds.  Thomas A. Kempis
He that is over-cautious will accomplish but very little.  Schiller
I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.  H. W. Beecher
It is well to learn caution by the misfortunes of others.  Publilius Syrus
Look before you leap; see before you go.  Tusser
More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.  Thomson
None pities him that's in the snare, who warned before, would not beware.  Herrick
Open your mouth and purse cautiously, and your stock of wealth and reputation shall, at least in repute, be great.  Zimmermann
Take warning by the misfortunes of others, that others may not take example from you.  Saadi
Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.  Shakespeare
Trust not him that hath once broken faith; he who betrayed thee once, will betray thee again.  Shakespeare
When clouds are seen wise men put on their cloaks.  Shakespeare
When using a needle you move your fingers delicately, and with a wise caution. - Use the same precaution with the inevitable dullness of life. - Give attention; keep yourself from imprudent precipitation; and do not take things by the point.  Rance
Whenever our neighbor's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own. Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security.  Burke
Any test that turns on what is offensive to the community's standards is too loose, too capricious, too destructive of freedom of expression to be squared with the First Amendment. Under that test, juries can censor, suppress, and punish what they don't like, provided the matter relates to "sexual impurity" or has a tendency "to excite lustful thoughts." This is community censorship in one of its worst forms. It creates a regime where in the battle between the literati and the Philistines, the Philistines are certain to win.  Justice William O. Douglas, dissenting, Roth v. United States, 345 U.S. 512 (1957).
Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.  A. Whitney Griswold, president of Yale, "A Little Learning," The Atlantic Monthly, November 1952, p. 52. Address to students at Phillips Academy, Andover, New Hampshire, spring 1952.
I can imagine no greater disservice to the country than to establish a system of censorship that would deny to the people of a free republic like our own their indisputable right to criticise their own public officials. While exercising the great powers of the office I hold, I would regret in a crisis like the one through which we are now passing to lose the benefit of patriotic and intelligent criticism.  President Woodrow Wilson, letter to Arthur Brisbane, April 25, 1917. - Ray Stannard Baker, Woodrow Wilson, Life and Letters, vol. 6, p. 36 (1946).
I thought the work would be very innocent, and one which might be confided to the reason of any man; not likely to be much read if let alone, but, if persecuted, it will be generally read. Every man in the United States will think it a duty to buy a copy, in vindication of his right to buy, and to read what he pleases.  Thomas Jefferson, letter to N. G. Dufief, April 19, 1814. - The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Andrew A. Lipscomb, vol. 14, p. 128 (1904).  The letter concerned a new book by M. de Becourt, Sur la Creation du Monde, which was potentially controversial, as it discussed topics of both a religious and a philosophical nature.
The vast number of titles which are published each year - all of them are to the good, even if some of them may annoy or even repel us for a time. For none of us would trade freedom of expression and of ideas for the narrowness of the public censor. America is a free market for people who have something to say, and need not fear to say it.  Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey, as reported by The New York Times, March 9, 1967, p. 42.  Humphrey addressed the National Book Awards ceremony in New York City, March 8, 1967, where during his speech more than 50 people walked out to protest the U.S. role in Vietnam.
False views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for everyone takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness; and when this is done, one path towards error is closed and the road to truth is often at the same time opened.  Charles Darwin
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.  John Milton
No member of a society has the right to teach any doctrine contrary to what the society holds to be true.  Samuel Johnson
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.  Oscar Wilde
The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.  Walt Whitman
The only freedom deserving the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs.  Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest.  John Stuart Mill
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.  Oscar Wilde
To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.  Claude Adrien Helvetius
We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.  John Stuart Mill
All ceremonies are, in themselves, very silly things; but yet a man of the world should know them. - They are the outworks of manners and decency, which would too often be broken in upon, if it were not for that defence which keeps the enemy at a proper distance.  Earl of Chesterfield
Ceremonies differ in every country; they are only artificial helps which ignorance assumes to imitate politeness, which is the result of good sense and good nature.  Goldsmith
Ceremony is the invention of wise men to keep fools at a distance; as good breeding is an expedient to make fools and wise men equals.  Steele
Ceremony resembles that base coin which circulates through a country by royal mandate; it serves every purpose of real money at home, but is entirely useless if carried abroad. - A person who should attempt to circulate his native trash in another country would be thought either ridiculous or culpable.  Goldsmith
Ceremony was devised at first to set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes, and recanting goodness; but where there is true friendship, there needs none.  Shakespeare
If we use no ceremony toward others, we shall be treated without any. - People are soon tired of paying trifling attentions to those who receive them with coldness, and return them with neglect.  Hazlitt
The ceremonies you have seen today are ancient and some of their origins are veiled in the mists of the past, but their spirit and their meaning shine through the ages, never, perhaps, more brightly than now.  Elizabeth II
To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment.  Bulwer
To divest either politics or religion of ceremony, is the most certain method of bringing either into contempt. - The weak must have their inducements to admiration as well as the wise; and it is the business of a sensible government to impress all ranks with a sense of subordination, whether this be effected by a diamond buckle, a virtuous edict, a sumptuary law, or a glass necklace.  Goldsmith
To repose our confidence in forms and ceremonies, is superstition; but not to submit to them is pride or self-conceit.  Pascal
If a man will begin with certainties, he will end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he will end in certainties.  Francis Bacon
There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.  Attributed to Robert Burns. Unverified.
Chance is but the pseudonym of God for those particular cases which he does not choose to subscribe openly with his own sign-manual.  Coleridge
What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!  Jeremy Taylor
Be not too presumptuously sure in any business; for things of this world depend on such a train of unseen chances that if it were in man's hands to set the tables, still he would not be certain to win the game.  Herbert
By the word chance we merely express our ignorance of the cause of any fact or effect - not that we think that chance was itself the cause.  Henry Fergus
Chance generally favors the prudent.  Joubert
Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.  Ovid
Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.  (Le hasard, c'est peut-'eatre le pseudonyme de Dieu, quant il ne veut pas signer.) Thophile Gautier.  - Thophile Gautier, Jules Sandeau, Mme. de Girardin, and Mry, La Croix de Berny, p. 29 (1895).  The four authors used pseudonyms to write the letters which compose the book.  Gautier wrote the letters signed Edgard de Meilhan.
Chance never writ a legible book; never built a fair house; never drew a neat picture; never did any of these things, nor ever will; nor can it, without absurdity, be supposed to do them, which are yet works very gross and rude, and very easy and feasible, as it were, in comparison to the production of a flower or a tree.  Isaac Barrow
He who distrusts the security of chance takes more pains to effect the safety which results from labor. To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says: "Leave no stone unturned." Bulwer
How often events, by chance, and unexpectedly, come to pass, which you had not dared even to hope for!  Terence
In the fields of observation chance favors only those minds which are prepared.  Louis Pasteur, inaugural lecture as professor and dean of the faculty of science, University of Lille, Douai, France, December 7, 1854. - A Treasury of the World's Great Speeches, ed. Houston Peterson, p. 473 (1954).
Many shining actions owe their success to chance, though the general or statesman runs away with the applause.  Homer
Objects which are usually the motives of our travels by land and by sea are often overlooked and neglected if they lie under our eye.  We put off from time to time going and seeing what we know we have an opportunity of seeing when we please.  Pliny the Younger Letters, VIII, 20
The doctrine of chances is the bible of the fool. There is no doubt such a thing as chance; but I see no reason why Providence should not make use of it.  Simms
The mines of knowledge are often laid bare by the hazel-wand of chance.  Tupper
There is no such thing as chance or accident, the words merely signify our ignorance of some real and immediate cause.  Adam Clarke
There is no such thing as chance; and what seems to us the merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.  Schiller
While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.  Publilius Syrus Maxim 185
Change is the nursery Of musicke, joy, life and eternity.  John Donne (1573-1631) "Change, an Elegy" (c. 1593-98)
Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.  Attributed to Arthur Schopenhauer. Unverified.
Change starts when someone sees the next step.  William Drayton
Everything is in a state of change. Thou, thyself art in everlasting change and in corruption to correspond, so is the whole universe.  Marcus Aurelius
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.  Senator Robert F. Kennedy, "Day of Affirmation," address delivered at the University of Capetown, South Africa, June 6, 1966. - Congressional Record, June 6, 1966, vol. 112, p. 12430.
He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.  Prime Minister Harold Wilson, speech to the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France, January 23, 1967. - Text, The New York Times, January 24, 1967, p. 12.
I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.  Thomas Jefferson, letter to Samuel Kercheval, July 12, 1816. - The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Paul L. Ford, vol. 10, pp. 42-43 (1899).  Inscription on the southeast quadrant of the Jefferson Memorial, Washington, D.C. The inscription omits some words without ellipses.
I am not what I was in the reign of the good Cinara. Forbear, cruel mother of sweet loves.  Horace [Quintas Horatius Flaccus] Odes, IV, i, 3
If a great change is to be made in human affairs, the minds of men will be fitted to it; the general opinions and feelings will draw that way. Every fear and hope will forward it; and they who persist in opposing this mighty current will appear rather to resist the decrees of Providence itself, than the mere designs of men. - They will not be so much resolute and firm as perverse and obstinate.  Burke
In a progressive country change is constant;change.  Is inevitable.  Benjamin Disraeli, speech on Reform Bill of 1867, Edinburgh, Scotland, October 29, 1867. - Selected Speeches of the Late Right Honourable the Earl of Beaconsfield, ed. T. E. Kebbel, vol. 2, part 4, p. 487 (1882).
In this world of change naught which comes stays, and naught which goes is lost.  Madame Swetchine
It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.  Publilius Syrus Maxim 469
It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gate of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task.  Virgil [Publius Virgilius Maro] Aeneid, VI, 126
It is not strange that even our loves should change with our fortunes.  Shakespeare
It is the first step in sociological wisdom, to recognize that the major advances in civilization are processes which all but wreck the societies in which they occur: - like unto an arrow in the hand of a child. The art of free society consists first in the maintenance of the symbolic code; and secondly in fearlessness of revision, to secure that the code serves those purposes which satisfy an enlightened reason. Those societies which cannot combine reverence to their symbols with freedom of revision, must ultimately decay either from anarchy, or from the slow atrophy of a life stifled by useless shadows.  Alfred North Whitehead, Symbolism, Its Meaning and Effect, chapter 3, p. 88 (1927). This paragraph ends the book.
It was a wine jar when the molding began: as the wheel runs round why does it turn out a water pitcher?  Horace [Quintas Horatius Flaccus] Epistles, III, 21
Look abroad thro' Nature's range.  Nature's mighty law is change.  Robert Burns
Let Not Women E'er Complain.  Change
Never change when love has found its home.  Sextus Aurelius Propertius Elegies, I, i, 36
Perfection is immutable, but for things imperfect, to change is the way to perfect them. - Constancy without knowledge cannot be always good; and in things ill, it is not virtue but an absolute vice.  Feltham
Remember the wheel of Providence is always in motion; and the spoke that is uppermost will be under; and therefore mix trembling always with your joy.  Philip Henry
The circumstances of the world are so variable, that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one.  William H. Seward
The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.  Albert Einstein
We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.  Abraham Lincoln 
The more the change the more it is the same thing.  Alphonse Karr
The older order changeth, yielding place to new, And God fulfils himself in many ways, Lest one good custom should corrupt the world.  Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "Idylls of the King," line 408, The Poetic and Dramatic Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson, p. 574 (1899).
The philosophers have only interpreted the world; the thing, however, is to change it.  Karl Marx
The times change and we change with them.  Lothair, from Owen's Epigrammata
The world is a scene of changes; to be constant in nature were inconstancy.  Cowley
There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in travelling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.  Washington Irving (Geoffrey Crayon, pseud.), Tales of a Traveller, Preface, p. 7 (1825? reprinted 1972).
There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse; as I have found in travelling in a stagecoach, that is often comfort to shift one's position and be bruised in a new place.  Daniel Webster
To change thy mind and to follow him that sets thee right is to be none the less the free agent that thou wast before.  Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Meditations, VIII, 16
Today is not yesterday. - We ourselves change. - How then, can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same. - Change, indeed, is painful, yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.  Carlyle
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.  Edmund Burke
Weep not that the world changes - did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.  William Cullen Bryant
What I possess I would gladly retain. - Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.  Goethe
When it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change.  Lucius Cary, Viscount Falkland, "A Speech Concerning Episcopacy," delivered in 1641.  - Falkland, A Discourse of Infallibility, p. 3 (1660).  While the exact date and audience of this speech are uncertain, the speech is known to deal with the Root and Branch Petition, which proposed doing away with bishops in the church (the episcopal system). Some historians consider this issue as the beginning of the definition of parties in Parliament.  - J. A. R. Marriott, The Life and Times of Lucius Cary, Viscount Falkland, pp. 179-80 (1907).
Where they [the cultures of Asia and the continent of Africa] resemble each other, however, is that in all cases, it is the Western impact which has stirred up the winds of change and set the processes of modernization in motion. Education brought not only the idea of equality but also another belief which we used to take for granted in the West - the idea of progress, the idea that science and technology can be used to better human conditions. In ancient society, men tended to believe themselves fortunate if tomorrow was not worse than today and anyway, there was little they could do about it. The idea, the revolutionary idea, that tomorrow might be better and that man can do something about it is entirely Western - and all around the world it inspires what Mr. Adlai Stevenson has called "the revolution of rising expectations." If a man has lived in a tradition which tells him that nothing can be done about his human condition, to believe that progress is possible may well be the greatest revolution of all.  Barbara Ward, lecture, State University of Iowa, Iowa City, April 6, 1961. - Ward, The Unity of the Free World, p. 12 (1961).
I have been faithful to thee, Cynara! in my fashion.  Ernest Dowson (1867-1900) "Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno Cynarae"
A good heart, benevolent feelings, and a balanced mind, lie at the foundation of character. Other things may be deemed fortuitous; they may come and go; but character is that which lives and abides, and is admired long after its possessor has left the earth.  John Todd
A man may be outwardly successful all his life long, and die hollow and worthless as a puff-ball; and he may be externally defeated all his life long, and die in the royalty of a kingdom established within him. - A man's true estate of power and riches, is to be in himself; not in his dwelling, or position, or external relations, but in his own essential character. - That is the realm in which he is to live, if he is to live as a Christian man.  H. W. Beecher
A man should be upright, not be kept upright.  Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Meditations, III, 5
A man should not allow himself to hate even his enemies; because if you indulge this passion on some occasion; it will rise of itself on others. If you hate your enemies; you will contract such a vicious habit of mind as by degrees will break out upon those who are your friends; or those who are indifferent to you.  Plutarch
A man's character is the reality of himself. - His reputation is the opinion othes have formed of him. - Character is in him; - reputation is from other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.  H. W. Beecher
A Persian carpet or piece of Sheraton makes a distinguished end and bears itself with dignity to the last - as aristocrats before the guillotine. But a Brussels or bit of mid-Victorian will be found to grovel, show its unlovely wounds and scream for pity.  Eden Phillpotts
A tree will not only lie as it falls but it will fall as it leans.  J. J. Gurney
Actions, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell characters: some are mere letters, some contain entire words, lines, or pages, which at once decipher the life of a man. One such genuine uninterrupted page may be your key to all the rest; but first be certain that he wrote it all alone, and without thinking of publisher or reader.  Lavater
Adopt the character of the twisting octopus, which takes on the appearance of the nearby rock. Now follow in this direction, now turn a different hue.  Theognis Elegies, 215
An aristocrat in morals as in mind.  Owen Wister, describing Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. - Wister, Roosevelt: The Story of a Friendship, p. 130 (1930).
As the sun is best seen at his rising and setting, so men's native dispositions are clearest seen when they are children, and when they are dying.  Boyle
As there is much beast and some devil in man, so is there some angel and some God in him. The beast and the devil may be conquered, but in this life never destroyed.  Coleridge
As they, who for every slight infirmity take physic to repair their health, do rather impair it; so they, who for every trifle are eager to vindicate their character, do rather weaken it.  J. Mason
Authority and place demonstrate and try the tempers of men, by moving every passion and discovering every frailty.  Plutarch Lives, Demosthenes and Cicero, sec. 3
Be the kind of person you would like to be with.  Author Unknown
Beloved Pan, and all ye other gods who haunt this place, give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and inward man be at one. May I reckon the wise to be the wealthy, and may I have such a quantity of gold as none but the temperate can carry.  Plato Dialogues, Phaedrus, 279
Blot out vain pomp; check impulse; quench appetite; keep reason under its own control.  Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Meditations, IX, 7
By nothing do men show their character more than by the things they laugh at.  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Character and Personality are the only investments worth anything.  Walt Whitman
Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.  Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt
Character is a diamond that scratches every other stone.  Bartol
Character is a man's guiding destiny.  Heraclitus Fragment 119
Character is built out of circumstances. - From exactly the same materials one man builds palaces, while another builds hovels.  G. H. Lewis
Character is destiny.  Heraclitus
Character is like a tree, and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it, the tree is the real thing.  Abraham Lincoln
Character is perfectly educated will.  Novalis
Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.  Elbert Hubbard
Character is what you are in the dark.  Attributed to Dwight L. Moody by his son, William R. Moody, D. L. Moody, chapter 66, p. 503 (1930).  Although both The Macmillan Book of Proverbs, Maxims, and Famous Phrases, ed. Burton Stevenson, p. 317 (1948, reprinted 1965), and The World Treasury of Religious Quotations, ed. Ralph L. Woods, p. 108 (1966), state that this quotation came from his sermons, Moody scholars have not found it there.
Character must stand behind and back up everything - the sermon, the poem, the picture, the play. None of them is worth a straw without it.  J. G. Holland
Characters do not change. - Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.  Disraeli
Even polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold.  Earl of Chesterfield
Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.  Alphonse Karr
Every man has, at times, in his mind the ideal of what he should be, but is not. In all men that seek to improve, it is better than the actual character. No one is satisfied with himself that he never wishes to