Quotes · page 8

The first step of all, absolutely necessary, without which no approach is possible, by which achievement ever comes within reach of realization, may be summed up in four brief words: the Service of Man.

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

The verse adorn again Fierce War, and faithful Love, And Truth severe, by fairy Fiction drest.

With books and money plac'd for show Like nest-eggs to make clients lay, And for his false opinion pay.

A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.

What a born melancholiac I am! The only way I keep afloat is by working. Directly I stop working I feel that I am sinking down, down. And as usual, I feel that if I sink further I shall reach the truth. That is the only mitigation; a kind …

Gentlemen, to the lady without whom I should never have survived for eighty, nor sixty, nor yet thirty years. Her smile has been my lyric, her understanding, the rhythm of the stanza. She has been the spring wherefrom I have drawn the …

No matter how long the tyrant endures, he will be the loser at the end. Your thought differentiates between pragmatist and idealist, between the part and the whole, between the mystic and materialist. Mine realizes that life is one and its …

Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes!

The Right Honourable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.

For such Truth as opposeth no man's profit nor pleasure is to all men welcome.

There is one common struggle against those who have appropriated the earth, the money, and the machines.

Winter is gone, and spring is over. The cuckoo-flowers grow mauver and mauver

It is to the middle class we must look for the safety of England.

When men hire themselves out to shoot other men to order, asking nothing about the justice of their cause, I don't care if they are shot themselves.

The man who is so painstakingly cautious about doing his own body no harm seldom does anything for anyone else.

When alterations in technical terms become necessary, it is desirable that the new term should contain in its form some memorial of the old one.

The socialism of continental Europe, taking it by and large, is actively hostile, not only to bad forms of organized religion, but to religion itself.

To enter into the hearts of men belongs to him who can explore the human heart.

We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

For we by conquest, of our soveraine might, And by eternall doome of Fate's decree, Have wonne the Empire of the Heavens bright.

One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness; one only stumbles upon them by chance, in a lucky hour, at the world's end somewhere, and hold fast to the days, as to fortune or fame.

The good man does good merely by living.

I have done all that I came into this world to do. I have worked task work, and have the rest of the day to myself.