Sayings and Quotes

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

Enemies publish themselves. They declare war. The friend never declares his love.

Beware of all enterprises that require a new set of clothes.

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

The world is but a canvas to our imagination.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

Being is the great explainer.

Only that day dawns to which we are awake.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can let alone.

The perception of beauty is a moral test.

All this worldly wisdom was once the amiable heresy of some wise man.

The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do ?

Any fool can make a rule.

Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.

That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

On tops of mountains, as everywhere to hopeful souls, it is always morning.

Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

Things do not change; we change.

It’s not enough to be busy. The question is: What are we busy about ?

As for Doing-good, that is one of the professions which are full.

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.

It is never too late to give up your prejudices.

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

When it is time to die, let us not discover that we never lived.

Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.

Many go fishing all their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

If you give money, spend yourself with it.

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.

The heart is forever inexperienced.