You May Also Like / View all maxioms
For fools admire, but me of sense approve.
For fools admire, but me of sense approve.
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a read more
How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man.
If you will discipline yourself to make your mind self-sufficient you will thereby be least vulnerable to injury from the read more
If you will discipline yourself to make your mind self-sufficient you will thereby be least vulnerable to injury from the outside.
When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who read more
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
Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to read more
Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.
He that has pity on the poor lends to the Lord.
He that has pity on the poor lends to the Lord.
Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too read more
Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose one's balance.
Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The read more
Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul.
