 To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved. Topics: Honesty |
| There are many things in which one and the other loses; but if it is essential to any transaction that only one side shall gain, the thing is not of God. Topics: Honesty |
| I could never draw the line between meanness and dishonesty. What is mean, so far as I can see, slides by indistinguishable gradations into what is dishonest. Topics: Honesty |
| One of the grandest things in having rights is, that though they are your rights you may give them up. Topics: Humility |
| Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness-the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected. Topics: Idleness, Work, Idleness |
| A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it. Topics: Ignorance |
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| The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission. Topics: Kindness |
| It is not by driving away our brother that we can be alone with God. Topics: Kindness |
| Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk. Topics: Life, Age |
| We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well. Topics: Life |
| You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water - an inch deep and then the mud. Topics: Life |
| Alas! how easily things go wrong; a sigh too much or a kiss too long, and there follows a mist and a weeping rain, and life is never the same again. Topics: Life |
