Thought for the day...

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.

It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

 

It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

 

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

 

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.

 

Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

That government is best which governs least.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

 

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

Things do not change; we change.

 

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

 

I should be back posting next week.