He'll get tired of chasing someone who doesn't chase back!
Opportunity is a haughty goddess who wastes no time with those who are unprepared. a
. . . good luck waits to come to that man who accepts opportunity.
Preceding accomplishment must be desire. Thy desires must be strong and definite.
We found water. We passed into a more fertile country where were grass and fruit. We found the trail to Babylon because the soul of a free man looks at life as a series of problems to be solved and solves them, while the soul of a slave whines, 'What can I do who am but a slave?
Learning was of two kinds: the one being the things we learned and knew, and the other being the training that taught us how to find out what we did not know?
A lean purse is easier to cure than to endure.
I was blessed to grow up in really interesting times and to go back to a home where I was very safe.
If. . . a principle of true Religion [i. e. , true Christianity] should. . . gain ground, there is no estimating the effects on public morals, and the consequent influence on our political welfare.
Few things are so deadly as a misguided sense of compassion.
Contentment is the door to god. If one is contented, one has already arrived. And the meaning of contentment is absolute acceptance as you are. Contentment means acceptance, discontentment means non-acceptance. A wants to become B - that is discontent. A is perfectly happy in being A, there is no desire to become B - that is contentment.