Quotes 581 till 600 of 607.
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Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying.
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Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
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Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.
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Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.
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Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
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With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
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Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.
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Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act.
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Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.
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Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance.
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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.
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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
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You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
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You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.
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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud.
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A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature.
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All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive.
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All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.
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Be true to your own act and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant to break the monotony of a decorous age.
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