To me it's still a greater miracle when a fly flies than when a human being undertakes to do so.
Labor, in itself, is neither elevating or otherwise. It is the laborer's privilege to ennoble his work by the aim with which he undertakes it, and by the enthusiasm and faithfulness he puts into it.
He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.
The man of true genius never lives before his time, he never undertakes impossibilities, and always embarks on his enterprise at the suitable place and period. Though he may catch a glimpse of the coming light as it gilds the mountain top long before it reaches the eyes of his contemporaries, and he may hazard a prediction as to the future, he acts with the present.
Christianity has therefore retained a strong hold on the public mind in America. . . In the United States. . . Christianity itself is a fact so irresistibly established, that no one undertakes either to attack or to defend it.
CLERGYMAN, n. A man who undertakes the management of our spiritual affairs as a method of better his temporal ones.
There are books that a writer undertakes because she wants to go on a journey, and there are journeys a writer undertakes because she wants to write a book.
Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself.
Any political party that undertakes to do it will, in God's name, be trampled, as it ought to be trampled, into the dust of condemnation, now and in the future.
When trying a case [the famous judge] L. Cassius never failed to inquire "Who gained by it?" Man's character is such that no one undertakes crimes without hope of gain.
No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government.
Poetry’s medium is the individual chest and throat and mouth of whoever undertakes to say the poem.
No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one knew before.
Our position is such that we can be rescued from eternal death and translated into life only by total and unceasing substitution, the substitution which God Himself undertakes on our behalf.
Trade is a social act. Whoever undertakes to sell any description of any goods to the public, does what affects the interest of other persons, and of society in general; and thus his conduct, in principal, comes within the jurisdiction of society.
Most minds are the slaves of external circumstances, and conform to any hand that undertakes to mould them.
When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him. . . For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth.
An entrepreneur assumes the risk and is dedicated and committed to the success of whatever he or she undertakes.
