quotes

The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much.

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it.

All parties without exception, when they seek for power, are varieties of absolutism.

Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.

What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.

Nothing gives an author so much pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors.

I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind.

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.

Feast of Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, Teacher, 1153 Commemoration of William & Catherine Booth, Founders of the Salvation Army, 1912 & 1890 And now be careful to be found a wise and faithful servant, and communicate the heavenly bread to your fellow servants without envy or idleness. Do not take up the vain excuse of your rawness of inexperience which you may imagine or assume. For sterile modesty is never pleasing, nor that humility laudable which passes the bounds of reason. Attend to your work; drive out bashfulness by a sense of duty, and act as a master... But I am not sufficient for these things, you say. As if your offering were not accepted from what you have, and not from what you have not. Be prepared to answer for the single talent committed to your charge, and take no thought for the test... For he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much. Give all, as assuredly you shall pay to the uttermost farthing; but of a truth out of what you have, not what you have not.

We are anxious when there is a dissonance between our "knowledge" and the perceivable facts. Since our "knowledge" is not to be doubted or questioned, it is the facts that have to be altered...

Let your love be stronger than your hate or anger. Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little than to break.

Every one fault seeming monstrous till his fellow-fault came to match it. -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2.

The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe.

Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.