Quotes to inspire and reflect

The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind, bravery is forethought.

Man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.

I believe in the incomprehensibility of God.

Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything familiarity.

The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

What is art Nature concentrated.

Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.

It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.

O would some power the giftie gie us to see ourselves as others see us.

Look abroad through Nature's range, Nature's mighty law is change.

When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.

It's always too early to quit.

It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part G. C.

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle. G. C.

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it G. C.

Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself. G. C.

He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage he won't encounter many rivals. G. C.

I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies, for the world needs such men more than heaven does. G. C.

To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usual G. C.

To read means to borrow to create out of one's readings is paying off one's debts. G. C.

Before we blame, we should first see if we can't excuse. G. C.

Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself. G. C.

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.

She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.

Someone's boring me. I think it's me.

Our sweetest songs are those that tell the saddest thoughts.

Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.

I love tranquil solitude And such society as is quiet, wise, and good.

Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.

It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.

But all God's angels come to us disguised...

There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.

Wealth may be an ancient thing, for it means power, it means leisure, it means liberty.

They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy a mountain-stream that ends in mud Methinks is melancholy.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

True happiness... arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self.

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give those fruit for their songs.

Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.

Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.

One's religion is whatever he is most interested in, and yours is Success.

Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

The Fear of Death often proves Mortal, and sets People on Methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.

Quotation, in the act of repeating erroneously the words of another.