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 | "All work is as seed sown; it grows and spreads, and sows itself
anew." | |
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Found in the topic Work.
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| "Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common
therewith. I call it rather a discerning of the infinite in the
finite." | |
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Found in the topic Love.
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| "Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; But for one man who can
stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity." | |
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Found in the topic Adversity.
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| "Our main business is not to see what lies dimly in the distance, but
to do what lies clearly at hand." | |
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Found in the topic Action.
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| "The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what
they miss." | |
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Found in the topic Life.
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| "France was long a despotism tempered by epigrams." | |
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Found in the topic Epigrams.
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| "Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by Action alone." | |
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Found in the topic Doubt.
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| "A fair day"s wage for a fair day"s work: it is as just a demand as
governed men ever made of governing. It is the everlasting right of
man." | |
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Found in the topic Wages.
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| "Man is a tool-using animal." | |
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Found in the topic Man.
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| "A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one." | |
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Found in the topic Autobiography.
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| "Happy the people whose annals are blank in the history books!" | |
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Found in the topic Book.
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| "Show me the man you honor, and I will show you the kind of a man you
are, for it shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man
you long to be." | |
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Found in the topic Idea.
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| "It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of
work he is to do in this universe." | |
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Found in the topic Problem.
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| "So here hath been dawning another blue day: Think, wilt thou let it
slip useless away? Out of eternity this new day is born; Into eternity at
night "twill return." | |
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Found in the topic Day.
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| "Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, But what
we do." | |
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Found in the topic Do.
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| "Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and
another of darkness; on the confines of two everlasting hostile empires,
Necessity and Freewill." | |
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Found in the topic Soul.
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| "Fame, we may understand is no sure test of merit, but only a
probability of such: it is an accident, not a property of a man." | |
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Found in the topic Merit.
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| "This world, after all our science and sciences, is still A miracle;
wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of
it." | |
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Found in the topic Wonderful.
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| "Except by name, Jean Paul Friedrich Richter is little known out of
Germany. The only thing connected with him, we think, that has reached
this country is his saying,?imported by Madame de Staël, and thankfully
pocketed by most newspaper critics,?"Providence has given to the French
the empire of the land; to the English that of the sea; to the Germans
that of?the air!" Richter: German humorist & prose writer." | |
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Found in the topic Humor.
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