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Practice is everything"This is often misquoted as "Practice makes perfect.
Practice is everything"This is often misquoted as "Practice makes perfect.
Wise people always think wisely and never otherwise !.
Wise people always think wisely and never otherwise !.
Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries.
Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries.
Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.
Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.
It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.
It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.
There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there read more
There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and a flatterer.
Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that read more
Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, she would never have been able to find these words.
Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes read more
Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.
The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result read more
The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing.
