Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

Let one who wants to move and convince others, first be convinced and moved themselves. If a person speaks with genuine earnestness the thoughts, the emotion and the actual condition of their own heart, others will listen because we all are knit together by the tie of sympathy.

No age seemed the age of romance to itself.

Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.

No sadder proof can be given of a person's own tiny stature, than their disbelief in great people.

No sadder proof can be given by man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May but at length the season of summer does come.

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.

The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.

There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.

Skepticism, as I said, is not intellectual only; it is moral also; a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul. A man lives by believing something; not by debating and arguing about many things. A sad case for him when all that he can manage to believe is something he can button in his pocket, and with one or the other organ eat and digest! Lower than that he will not get.

A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.

A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

The dust of controversy is merely the falsehood flying off.

The heart always sees before than the head can see.

If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.

If you are ever in doubt as to whether or not you should kiss a pretty girl, give her the benefit of the doubt.

Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.

Thomas Jefferson still lives.

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance -- the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it ;better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Real good breeding, as the people have it here, is one of the finest things now going in the world. The careful avoidance of all discussion, the swift hopping from topic to topic, does not agree with me; but the graceful style they do it with is beyond that of minuets!

We have our little theory on all human and divine things. Poetry, the workings of genius itself, which, in all times, with one or another meaning, has been called Inspiration, and held to be mysterious and inscrutable, is no longer without its scientific exposition. The building of the lofty rhyme is like any other masonry or bricklaying: we have theories of its rise, height, decline and fall -- which latter, it would seem, is now near, among all people.

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights. It is simple payment of our wages, of our deserts; requires neither thanks nor complaint. Foolish soul! What act of legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all.

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

Little other than a red tape Talking-machine, and unhappy Bag of Parliamentary Eloquence.

Happy the people whose annals are blank in the history books

Happy are the people whose annals are blank in history books

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.

In private life I never knew anyone interfere with other people's disputes but he heartily repented of it.

Men's hearts ought not to be set against one another, but set with one another, and all against evil only.

If the cut of the costume indicates intellect and talent, then the color indicates temper and heart.

Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work.

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

Clever men are good, but they are not the best.

The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder -- waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life, and, having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.

When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of man's soul under formulas of Profit and Loss; and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances.

The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Cash-payment is not the sole nexus of man with man.

Why is it that wherever I go, the resident idiot heads straight for me?;"Gwynn Thomas

If a book comes from the heart it will contrive to reach other hearts. All art and author craft are of small account to that.

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

If those gentlemen would let me alone I should be much obliged to them. I would say, as Shakespeare would say... ''Sweet Friend, for Jesus sake forbear.''

The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.