Quotes to inspire and reflect

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

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.

It's always too early to quit.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

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.

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

Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.

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

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

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

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

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.

Painting the art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.

The covers of this book are too far apart.

Politeness, n. The most acceptable hypocrisy.

There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know.

Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.

To be positive to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.

Brain an apparatus with which we think we think.