Quotes to inspire and reflect

America is a young country with an old mentality.

Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product of philosophy.

I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.

I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision.

The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.

Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.

It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self- conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations are in a conspiracy to under-value them.

The people of the United States, perhaps more than any other nation in history, love to abase themselves and proclaim their unworthiness, and seem to find refreshment in doing so... That is a dark frivolity, but still frivolity.

For a significant man woman, the one thought he values greatly, to the laughter and scorn of insignificant men, is a key to hidden treasure chambers; for those others, it is nothing but a piece of old iron.

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn. C. S. Lewis #10095 If you would be loved, love and be lovable.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience by which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.

Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

There is nothing like dream to create the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood tomorrow.

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

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

It is better to have done something than to have been someone.

A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.

We find that after years of struggle we do not take a journey, but rather a journey takes us.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tries, and a touch that never hurts.

Accurate scholarship can unearth the whole offence from Luther until noe that has driven a culture mad. From what occurred at linz what huge imago made a psychopathic god. I and the public know what all schoolchildren learn those to whom evil is done do evil in return. W. H.

God reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists.

There are dreams stronger than death. Men and women die holding these dreams.

The difference between a good man and a bad man is the choice of cause.

If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds? worth of distance run? Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it, And you’ll be a Man, my son!

I felt like poisoning a monk.

We must hang together, gentlemen...else, we shall most assuredly hang separately.

Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave.

There are three rings involved with marriage. The engagement ring, the wedding ring, and the suffering.

Humility is not disgraceful, and carries no loss of true pride.

Think as I think" said the man, "or you are abominable. You are a toad." And after I had thought on it, I said "I will then, be a toad.

The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, willfulness and patience. Courage strengthens, willfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.

The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

I just drank eighteen whiskies. That must be a record.

The talent is in the choices.

The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.

The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.

I have never been able, really, to regret anything in all my life. I have always been far much too absorbed in the present moment or the immediate future to think back.

In the whole wretched business there was something generous that was doing its best to flower. J. M.

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.

Every man who is not a monster, mathematician or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other.

But pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.

Childhood has no forebodings, but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.

He that commends me to mine own content Commends me to the thing I cannot get.