22 quotes found
“Experience is the extract of suffering.”
“Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.”
“Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.”
“Wise sayings often fall on barren ground but a kind word is never thrown away.”
“Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.”
“There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces...”
“The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.”
“In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.”
“Men of much depth of mind can bear a great deal of counsel for it does not easily deface their own character nor render their purposes indistinct.”
“If you would understand your own age read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely.”
“Almost all human affairs are tedious. Everything is too long. Visits dinners concerts plays speeches pleadings essays sermons are too long. Pleasure and business labour equally under this d...”
“No man who has not sat in the assemblies of men can know the light odd and uncertain ways in which decisions are often arrived at.”
“The living together for three long rainy days in the country has done more to dispel love than all the perfidies in love that have ever been committed.”
“Nature intended you to be the fountain-spring of cheerfulness and social life and not the mountain of despair and melancholy.”
“Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment.”
“Almost all human affairs are tedious. Everything is too long. Visits dinners concerts plays speeches pleadings essays sermons are too long. Pleasure and business labour equally under this defect or...”
