An intelligent class can scarce ever be, as a class, vicious, and never, as a class, indolent. The excited mental activity operates as a counterpoise to the stimulus of sense and appetite.
If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough.
I know I am only one, but I am one, and just because I’m one should not stop me from.
In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.
To look forward and not back, To look out and not in, and To lend a hand.
Friendship is one of the greatest luxuries of life.
Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds – all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.
War – hard apprenticeship of freedom.
I can’t do everything, but that won’t stop me from doing the little I can do.
In the pure mathematics we contemplate absolute truths which existed in the divine mind before the morning stars sang together, and which will continue to exist there when the last of their radiant host shall have fallen from heaven.
Make it your habit not to be critical about small things.
Take time enough for your meals, and eat them in company whenever you can. There is no need for hurry in life – least of all when we are eating.
For all mankind that unstained scroll unfurled, Where God might write anew the story of the World.
You and I must not complain if our plans break down if we have done our part. That probably means that the plans of One who knows more than we do have succeeded.
You shall not pile, with servile toil, Your monuments upon my breast, Nor yet within the common soil Lay down the wreck of power to rest, Where man can boast that he has trod On him that was “the scourge of God.”
Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.
He loved his country as no other man has loved her, but no man deserved less at her hands.
I will not refuse to do the something I can do.
Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
Together – one of the most inspiring words in the English language. Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.