Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on read more

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.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. - Psychological Reflections.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. - Psychological Reflections.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. - Adages.

In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. - Adages.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things and I'll show you a man who cannot be read more

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things and I'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we read more

The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do.

Some men see things as they are and ask, 'why?' I dream things that never were and ask, 'why not?'"NB: read more

Some men see things as they are and ask, 'why?' I dream things that never were and ask, 'why not?'"NB: This quote is a paraphrase from a similar quote by G. B. Shaw.

In the light of his vision he has found his freedom: his thoughts are peace, his words are peace and read more

In the light of his vision he has found his freedom: his thoughts are peace, his words are peace and his work is peace.

If a walker is indeed an individualist there is nowhere he can't go at dawn and not many places he read more

If a walker is indeed an individualist there is nowhere he can't go at dawn and not many places he can't go at noon. But just as it demeans life to live alongside a great river you can no longer swim in or drink from, to be crowded into safer areas and hours takes much of the gloss off walking -- one sport you shouldn't have to reserve a time and a court for.