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Wise men argue cases, fools decide them.
Wise men argue cases, fools decide them.
This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one read more
This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy in our great men.
Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you read more
Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women read more
People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it.
In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely.
In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely.
Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for read more
Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.
God does not treat us as our sins deserve, man treats us as our sins deserve.
God does not treat us as our sins deserve, man treats us as our sins deserve.
Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have.
Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have.