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Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind.
Topic: Acceptance
Source: None
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To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser.
Topic: Age
Source: None
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
Topic: Books
Source: None
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Anyone can carry his burden, however heavy, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, until the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means.
Topic: Burden
Source: None
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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
Topic: Business
Source: None
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Lord, behold our family here assembled. We thank Thee for this place in which we dwell; for the love that unites us; for the peace accorded us this day; for the hope with which we expect the morrow; for the health, the work, the food, and the bright skies that make our lives delightful; for our friends in all parts of the earth, and our friendly helpers in this foreign isle [Samoa]... Give us courage, gaiety, and the quiet mind. Spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies. Bless us, if it may be, in all our innocent endeavors. If it may not be, give us the strength to encounter that which is to come, that we be brave in peril, constant in tribulation, temperate in wrath, and in all changes of fortune and down to the gates of death, loyal and loving to one another.
Topic: Christianity
Source: None
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Commemoration of William Morris, Artist, Writer, 1896 Commemoration of George Kennedy Bell, Bishop of Chichester, Ecumenist, Peacemaker, 1958 There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
Topic: Christianity
Source: None
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favourite kind of
mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when
it made a cathedral.
Topic: Churches
Source: Inland Voyage
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
Topic: Courage
Source: None
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. -Robert Louis Stevenson.
Topic: Courage
Source: None
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The friendly cow all red and white,
I love with all my heart:
She gives me cream with all her might
To eat with apple-tart.
Topic: Cows
Source: Child's Garden of Verses--The Cow
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You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
Topic: Dogs
Source: None
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A friend is a present you give yourself. -Robert Louis Stevenson.
Topic: Friendship
Source: None
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
Topic: Health
Source: None
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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
Topic: Life
Source: None
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
Topic: Lying
Source: None
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it , they are wrong.
Topic: Morals
Source: None
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It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
Topic: Nature
Source: None
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
Topic: Politics
Source: None
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
Topic: Politics / Government
Source: None
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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
Topic: Quiet
Source: None
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A man met a lad weeping. "What do you weep for?" he asked. "I am weeping for my sins," said the lad. "You must have little to do," said the man. The next day, they met again. Once more the lad was weeping. "Why do you weep now?" asked the man. "I am weeping because I have nothing to eat," said the lad. "I thought it would come to that," said the man.
Topic: Religion / Beliefs
Source: None
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That man is successful who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much, who has gained the respect of the intelligent men and the love of children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had.
Topic: Success
Source: None
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
Topic: Travel
Source: None
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For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
Topic: Travel
Source: None
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It is not for nothing, either, that the umbrella has become the
very foremost badge of modern civilization--the Urim and Thummim
of respectability. . . . So strongly do we feel on this point,
indeed, that we are almost inclined to consider all who possess
really well-conditioned umbrellas as worthy of the Franchise.
Topic: Umbrellas
Source: Philosophy of Umbrellas
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It is the habitual carriage of the umbrella that is the stamp of
Respectability. The umbrella has become the acknowledged index
of social position. . . . Crusoe was rather a moralist than a
pietist, and his leaf-umbrella is as fine an example of the
civilized mind striving to express itself under adverse
circumstances as we have ever met with.
Topic: Umbrellas
Source: Philosophy of Umbrellas, written in collaboration with J.W. Ferrier
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Umbrellas, like faces, acquire a certain sympathy with the
individual who carries them. . . . May it not be said of the
bearers of these inappropriate umbrellas, that they go about the
streets "with a lie in their right hand?" . . . Except in a very
few cases of hypocrisy joined to a powerful intellect, men, not
by nature, umbrellarians, have tried again and again to become so
by art, and yet have failed--have expended their patrimony in the
purchase of umbrella after umbrella, and yet have systematically
lost them, and have finally, with contrite spirits and strunken
purses, given up their vain struggle, and relied on theft and
borrowing for the remainder of their lives.
Topic: Umbrellas
Source: Philosophy of Umbrellas
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You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
Topic: Weakness
Source: None
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You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
Topic: Weakness
Source: None
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Teacher, tender comrade, wife, A fellow-farer true through life.
Topic: Wife
Source: None
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A man finds he has been wrong at every preceding stage of his
career, only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that he is at
last entirely right.
Topic: Wrongs
Source: Crabbed Age
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Once I guessed right,
And I got credit by't;
Thrice I guessed wrong,
And I kept my credit on.
Topic: Wrongs
Source: Crabbed Age
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