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Before the gates of excellence the high gods have placed sweat long is the road thereto and rough and steep at first but when the heights are reached, then there is ease, though grievously hard in the winning.

Even though it's hard, it's easy.

Invite the man that loves thee to a feast, but let alone thin enemy.

If thou should lay up even a little upon a little, and should do this often, soon would even this become great.

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner.

The dawn speeds a man on his journey, and speeds him too in his work.

Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.

Man's chiefs treasure is a sparing tongue.

It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.

Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor.

He for himself weaves woe who weaves for others woe, and evil counsel on the counselor recoils.

Do not seek evil gains evil gains are the equivalent of disaster.

A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing.

Herman Melville Quotes

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.

There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes the whole universe for a vast practical joke.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

Life's a voyage that's homeward bound.

A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.

Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.

Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

The mother's heart is the child\'s schoolroom.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs -- jolted by every pebble in the road.

Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month and it would not get through their skins.

A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune.

It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.

Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.

All words are pegs to hang ideas on.

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.

We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers-on, that see and know and appreciate our thoughts and feelings and acts.

It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Repentance is another name for aspiration.

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.

Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.

The dog was created especially for children. He is the God of frolic.

Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Troubles are often the tools God fashions us for better things.

If a man cannot be a Christian in the place he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.

Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.

We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.

The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.

Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to point us to that realm which is the real and endless home of the heart.

What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.

It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.

The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild
beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.

You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are but you must approach each man by the right door.

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore

Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.

The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a but.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

The shades of night were falling fast, As though an Alpine village passed A youth, who bore, mid snow and ice, A banner with the strange device, Excelsior His brow was sad his eye beneath, Flashed like a falchion from its sheath, And like a silver clarion rung The accents of that unknown tongue, Excelsior

Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream For the soul is dead that slumbers, and things are not what they seem. Life is real Life is earnest And the grave is not its goal Dust thou art to dust returns, Was not spoken of the soul.

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

The holiest of holidays are those Kept by ourselves in silence and apart The secret anniversaries of the heart.

Talk not of wasted affection affection never was wasted.

Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.

Silently one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.

Life is real Life is earnest And the grave is not its goal Dust thou art, to dust returns, Was not spoken of the soul.

If I am not worth the wooing, I am surely not worth the winning.

There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.

Know how sublime a thing is to suffer and be strong.

It takes less time to do things right than to explain why you did it wrong.

Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate Still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.

If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man\'s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm any hostility.
The adoration of his heart had been to her only as the perfume of a wild flower, which she had carelessly crushed with her foot in passing.

The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.

We see but dimly through the mists and vapors Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funeral tapers May be heaven's distant lamps.

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society, as a blazing meteor when it descends to earth, is only a stone.

The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide.

Trust no future, however pleasant Let the dead past bury its dead Act, - act in the living Present Heart within and God overhead.

The morning pouring everywhere, its golden glory on the air.

Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.

To which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.

All things must change to something new, to something strange.

Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thane. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear.

Learn to labor and to wait.

He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.

A torn jacket is soon mended but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted, If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters returning Back to their springs, like the rain shall fill them full of refreshment That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgment of others.

Henry Kissinger Quotes

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.

The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose.

The great tragedies of history occur not when right confronts wrong but when two rights confront each other.

Nixon had three goals to win by the biggest electoral landslide in history to be remembered as a peacemaker and to be accepted by the Establishment as an equal. He achieved all these objectives at the end of 1972 and the beginning of 1973. And he lost them all two months later-partly because he turned a dream into an obsession.

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.

We cannot always assure the future of our friends we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.

Nobody will ever win the Battle of the Sexes. There's just too much fraternizing with the enemy.

No foreign policy-no matter how ingenious-has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.

The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.

There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. ... What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it.

When you meet the president, you ask yourself, How did it ever occur to anybody that he should be governor much less president

If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes.

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault.

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

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