Only three percent of adults have written goals, and everyone else works for them.
Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
Unless we love the truth we cannot know it.
Cold words freeze people, and hot words scorch them, and bitter words make them bitter, and wrathful words make them wrathful. Kind words also produce their own image on men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They smooth, and quiet, and comfort the hearer.
Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men's souls, and a beautiful image it is.
Corruption of morals is rapid enough in any country without a bounty from government. And. . . the Chief Magistrate of the United States should be the last man to accelerate its progress.
It was like swimming against a current that swept you backwards however hard you struggled, and then suddenly deciding to turn round and go with the current instead of opposing it. Nothing had changed except your own attitude: the predestined thing happened in any case.
You didn't beat the compotition you crushed the compotition!
To those who have not yet learned the secret of true happiness, begin now to study the little things in your own door yard.