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Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
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Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years.
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Innately, children seem to have little true realistic anxiety. They will run along the brink of water, climb on the window sill, play with sharp objects and with fire, in short, do everything that is bound to damage them and to worry those in charge of th
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Children are very nice observers, and will often perceive your sligthest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.
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The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.
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Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.
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The first duty to children is to make them happy, If you have not made them so, you have wronged them, No other good they may get can make up for that.
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Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.
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The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.
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There are 350 varieties of shark, not counting loan and pool.
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Cheerfulness greases the axles of the world.
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I had rather have a fool make me merry, than experience make me sad.
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The habit of looking on the best side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a years.
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An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.
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Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.
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We are rich only through what we give; and poor only through we refuse and keep.
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To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
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A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
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Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted
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We falsely attribute to men a determined character - putting together all their yesterdays - and averaging them - we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is the silent poor indeed.
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It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one; but success will be of a truer kind, earned without fraud or injustice. And even though a man should for a time be unsuccessful, still he must
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Character is the foundation stone upon which one must build to win respect. Just as no worthy building can be erected on a weak foundation, so no lasting reputation worthy of respect can be built on a weak character.
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Character is much easier kept than recovered.
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Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work
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They are slaves who fear to speak,
For the fallen and the weak.
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By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character
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Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.
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A man is what he is, not what men say he is. His character no man can touch. His character is what he is before his God and his Judge; and only he himself can damage that. His reputations what men say he is. That can be damaged; but reputation is for time
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Do what you know and perception is converted into character.
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Self-trust is the essence of heroism
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You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.
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The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is a human owl, vigilant in darkness, and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.
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Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids
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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both
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Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
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In this world of change naught which comes stays and naught which goes is lost.
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Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes and I am left the same. The more things change the more I am the same. I am what I started with, and when it is all over I will be all that is left of me.
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The world will change for the better when people decide they are sick and tired of being sick and tired of the way the world is, and decide to change themselves.
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Men are not so weak as you think. They can always leave anybody or any place without a pang - if they find another person or another place they like better. If they feel pricks and scruples it is merely because they cannot make up their mind that the chan
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Familiarity may breed contempt in some areas of human behavior, but in the field of social ideas it is the touchstone of acceptability.
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People wish to be settled. It is only as far as they are unsettled that there is any hope for them.
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Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.
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Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.
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Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place in the contents. New harmonies, new contrasts, new combinations of every sort. Nothing ever happens twice alike. The most familiar people stand each moment in some new relation to each other,
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Careful with fire is good advice we know.
Careful with words is ten times doubly so.
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The price is what you pay; the value is what you receive.
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You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. You cannot escape the results of your thoughts.
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The brain that bubbles with phrases has hard work to collect its thoughts.
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Thinking things has been done through the ages; knowing things remains to be done.
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Some have half-baked ideas because their ideals are not heated up enough.
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