“The best rules to form a young man are to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one’s own opinions, and value others that deserve it.”
—SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE
“Every man has three characters—that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.”
—ALPHONSE KARR
“It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a thing, his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business. I should not like to be merely a great doctor, a great lawyer, a great minister, a great politician—I should like to be also something of a man.”
—THEODORE PARKER via DailyLit
Benevolence
“There is nothing that requires so strict an economy as our benevolence. We should husband our means as the agriculturalist his fertilizer, which if he spread over too large a superficies produces no crop, if over too small a surface, exuberates in rankness and in weeds.” —Colton
Good Spring quote.
The year’s at the spring, The day’s at the morn; Morning’s at seven; The hillside’s dew pearled;
The lark’s on the wing; The snail’s on the thorn; God’s in His heaven– All’s right with the world!