(31 quotes found)
“Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?”
Arthur Helps
“There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.”
“It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss -- a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world.”
“A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.”
“Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.”
“The worst use that can be made of success is to boast of it”
“Extremely foolish advice is likely to be uttered by those who are looking at the laboring vessel from the land”
“The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.”
“The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome.”
“Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.”
