Quotes
Quotes about Will
Men are men before they are lawyers, or physicians, or merchants, or manufacturers; and if you make them capable and sensible men, they will make themselves capable and sensible lawyers or physicians.
If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.
Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.
If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?
While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.
If the camel once gets his nose in a tent, his body will soon follow.
Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.
The willing contemplation of vice is vice.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.
Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.
An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.
The decent moderation of today will be the least of human things tomorrow. At the time of the Spanish Inquisition, the opinion of good sense and of the good medium was certainly that people ought not to burn too large a number of heretics; extreme and unreasonable opinion obviously demanded that they should burn none at all.
I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library.
To the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hoping are optimistic.
I will not play at tug o' war.
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does Nature, because in her inventions, nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.
