What's your hurry?" Because now is the only time there ever is to do a thing in," said Miss Ophelia.
I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.
Hell is the place for people who did not live their lives according to the best of what was in them.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
We should not think of conversion as the acceptance of a particular creed, but as a change of heart.
We would worry less if we praised more. Thanksgiving is the enemy of discontent and dissatisfaction.
If we have faith in Jesus Christ the hardest as well as the easiest times in life can be a blessing.
When your shot has to carry over a water hazard, you can either hit one more club or two more balls.
Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
The kind uncles and aunts of the race are more esteemed than its true spiritual fathers and mothers.
If there is any hell more unprincipled than our rulers, and we, the ruled, I feel curious to see it.
Perfect sincerity and transparency make a great part of beauty, as in dewdrops, lakes, and diamonds.
A town is saved, not more by the righteous men in it, than by the woods and swamps that surround it.
Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.
One man lies in his words, and gets a bad reputation; another in his manners, and enjoys a good one.
Since all things are good, men fail at last to distinguish which is the bane and which the antidote.
Thus men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up.
Our taste is too delicate and particular. It says nay to the poet's work, but never yea to his hope.
I believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark, though the witches are all hung.
Of a life of luxury the fruit is luxury, whether in agriculture, or commerce, or literature, or art.
Can we not do without the society of our gossip a little while, - have our own thoughts to cheer us?
I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.
There is a slumbering subterranean fire in nature which never goes out, and which no cold can chill.
Those undeserved joys which come uncalled and make us more pleased than grateful are they that sing.
It is necessary not to be Christian to appreciate the beauty and significance of the life of Christ.
How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them.
The purity men love is like the mists which envelope the earth, and not like the azure ether beyond.
Sing, O muse, of the rage of Achilles, son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans.
The proof of battle is action, proof of words, debate. No time for speeches now, it's time to fight.
Just are the ways of heaven; from Heaven proceed The woes of man: Heaven doom'd the Greeks to bleed.
In saffron-colored mantle from the tides Of Oceans rose the Morning to bright light TO gods and men.
The only monster here is the gambling monster that has enslaved your mother, and I call him Gamblor!
Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.
How does the cosmos create? That's not just any question, it's 'the' question. It's the God Problem.
Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.
Bond reflected that good Americans were fine people and that most of them seemed to come from Texas.
Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists - with it all things are possible.
Of course, living is another way of killing oneself: its drawback is that it takes so horribly long.
To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
Any fool can tell a crisis when it arrives. The real service to the state is to detect it in embryo.
It's not so much what you have to learn if you accept weird theories, it's what you have to UNlearn.
If there is a category of human being for whom his work ought to speak for itself, it is the writer.
ISTPs have a vested interest in practical and applied science, especially in the field of mechanics.
If a man is known by the company he keeps, so also his character is reflected in the books he reads.
If you're right, and nobody really cares what's out there, I wonder whether we're even worth saving.
If you're a leader and you're the smartest guy in the world - in the room, you've got real problems.
As a leader, you have no right to have any employee wonder how they fit in and where they are going.
The biggest opportunity for big companies has come by far in the digitization of internal processes.