924 quotes found
“To fill the hour and leave no crevice ... that is happiness.”
“The high prize of life the crowning fortune of man is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness.”
“Right Now Is the Time to Be Kind You cannot do a kindness too soon for you never know how soon it will be too late.”
“A hero is no braver than an ordinary man but he is brave five minutes longer.”
“There is properly no history only biography.”
“Man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors and a misfit from the start.”
“The cultivated man wise to know and bold to perform is the end to which nature works.”
“We fancy men are individuals so are pumpkins but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history.”
“The louder he talked of his honour the faster we counted our spoons.”
“A feeble man can see the farms that are fenced and tilled the houses that are built. The strong man sees the possible houses and farms. His eye makes estates as fast as the sun breeds clouds.”
“Outside among your fellows among strangers you must preserve appearances 100 things you cannot do but inside the terrible freedom!”
“When the man is at home his standing in society is well known and quietly taken but when he is abroad it is problematical and is dependent on the success of his manners.”
“Extremes meet and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.”
“Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men or they are no better than dreams.”
“If I cannot brag of knowing something then I brag of not knowing it at any rate brag.”
“Every man is a borrower and a mimic life is theatrical and literature a quotation.”
“Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants and to serve them one's self?”
“Trust the instinct to the end though you can render no reason.”
“You have first an instinct then an opinion then a knowledge as the plant has root bud and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end though you can render no reason.”
“If a man own land the land owns him.”
