Quotes
Quotes about End
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
It's difficult to wake one who is only pretending to be asleep.
A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against its government.
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become.
Those who failed to oppose me, who readily agreed with me, accepted all my views, and yielded easily to my opinions, were those who did me the most injury, and were my worst enemies, because, by surrendering to me so easily, they encouraged me to go too far... I was then too powerful for any man, except myself, to injure me.
What you get out depends on what you put in; and as the grandest mill in the world will not extract wheat-flour from peascods, so pages of formulae will not get a definite result out of loose data.
The fetters imposed on liberty at home have ever been forged out of the weapons provided for defence against real, pretended, or imaginary dangers from abroad.
To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust.
No man can be called friendless when he has God and the companionship of good books.
Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time in reading it.
Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the sense shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
Peter Principle: In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
A successful man is one who makes more money than a wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.
If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.
Presents, I often say, endear absents.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.
Never spend your money before you have it.
You have to hold your audience in writing to the very endâmuch more than in talking, when people have to be polite and listen to you.
Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.
