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It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.
It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.
The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish good results while the strongest, by read more
The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish good results while the strongest, by dispersing his effort over many chores, may fail to accomplish anything. Drops of water, by continually falling, hone their passage through the hardest of rocks but the hasty torrent rushes over it with hideous uproar and leaves no trace behind.
The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, read more
The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.
To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.
My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo read more
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
Opinions that are well rooted should grow and change like a healthy tree.
Opinions that are well rooted should grow and change like a healthy tree.
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.
Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that read more
Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.
