Quotes 241 till 260 of 387.
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One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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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.
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One who understands much displays a greater simplicity of character than one who understands little.
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Only he who can say, ''The Lord is my strength,'' can say, ''Of whom shall I be afraid?''
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Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
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People, like sheep, tend to follow a leader - occasionally in the right direction.
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Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.
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Practice rather than preach. Make of your life an affirmation, defined by your ideals, not the negation of others. Dare to the level of your capability then go beyond to a higher level.
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Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.
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Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.
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Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.
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Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.
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Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.
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Science, which cuts its way through the muddy pond of daily life without mingling with it, casts its wealth to right and left, but the puny boatmen do not know how to fish for it.
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Seek to cultivate a buoyant, joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life.
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Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.
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