God in making man intended by him to reduce all His Works back again to Himself.
Deserted, at his utmost need, By those his former bounty fed; On the bare earth exposed he lies, With not a friend to close his eyes.
Ingratitude! thou marble-hearted fiend, More hideous when thou show'st thee in a child Than the sea-monster.
What's ill-got scarce to a third heir descends, Nor wrongful booty meets with prosperous ends. [Lat., De male quaesitis vix gaudet tertius paeres, Nec habet eventus sordida praeda bonos.]
If you want to see what your friends and family think of you, die broke, and see who comes to your funeral.
Wit's an unruly engine, wildly striking Sometimes a friend, sometimes the engineer: Hast thou the knack? pamper it not with liking; But if thou want it, buy it not too deare Many affecting wit beyond their power, Have got to be a deare fool for an houre.
Abuse a man unjustly and you will make friends for him.
It takes your enemy and your friend, working together to hurt you to the heart; the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.
Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends.
Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.
When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall - Think of it, ALWAYS.
Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger and we will make not only our own happiness, but that of the world at large.
What is in the end to be thrown down, Begins by being first set on high.
Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended, but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward toward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.
Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.
When you come to the end of your rope...tie a knot and hang on.
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing-that's why we recommend it daily.
I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start my friend, anyone can start from now and make a brand new end.
I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time.
I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.
If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; but if we begin with doubts, and are patient in them, we shall end in certainties.
CANI! - (pronounced kuhn-EYE) stands for Constant And Never-ending Improvement.
Prosperity depends more on wanting what you have than having what you want.