I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all.

I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of physics.

Henry Brooks Adams

He who has a thousand friendsHas not a friend to spare,While he who has one enemyShall meet him everywhere.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

God is more concerned about who you are than what you do, and He is more concerned about what you do than where you do it.

Gary Gulbranson

Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

Henry Fielding

Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.

Jonathan Edwards

The weather being hot, he had no cravat, and wore his shirt collar wide open; so that every time he spoke something was seen to twitch and jerk up in his throat, like the little hammers in a harpsichord when the notes are struck. Perhaps it was the Truth feebly endeavouring to leap to his lips. If so, it never reached them.

Charles Dickens

Self-help must precede help from others. Even for making certain of help from heaven, one has to help oneself.

Moraji R. Desai, conference of n

For without belittling the courage with which men have died, we should not forget those acts of courage with which men have lived.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

How many things served us but yesterday as articles of faith, which today we deem but fables?

Michel de Montaigne

A professional whose job it is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.

Lord Northcliffe

If I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of this by saying many things to please him.

Samuel Johnson

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those dark, clustered houses encloses it

Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two C