“All great peoples are conservative.”
Great“Reform is not pleasant, but grievous no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.”
Work“All great peoples are conservative.”
Great“If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.”
Men“He who has health, has hope and he who has hope, has everything.”
Fitness“It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.”
Hope“Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.”
Business“A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.”
Knowledge“For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that - is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?”
Good“For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.”
Good“Reform is not pleasant, but grievous no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.”
Work“Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.”
Death“No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.”
Great“Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.”
Humor“What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.”
Teacher“The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.”
Courage“In books lies the soul of the whole past time.”
Time“Music is well said to be the speech of angels.”
Music“I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.”
Great“I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.”
Wisdom“The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.”
Business“The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.”
Happiness