The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.

Nadal’s the best player in history on [clay], and he is one of the best-ever players that played this game.

Liberty is a product of order.

A teacher affects eternity: he can never tell where his influence stops.

By patience and determination, rather than by a harsh upsetting of tradition, we move toward our national aspirations.... This is the way we get things done in America. One man tells another, does what he can, till the sum of these efforts grows into a national aspiration-a precious goal. Then occur ...

True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Know thyself.

Amendment is repentance.

The world’s history is a divine poem of which the history of every nation is a canto and every man a word. Its strains have been pealing along down the centuries, and though there have been mingled the discords of warring cannon and dying men, yet ... there has been a divine melody running through t ...

Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

We believe that prayer works miracles, and that all prayers are answered. But the greatest miracle is that some of them are actually answered exactly as we ourselves wish them to be.

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kind.

A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey’s gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind.

Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not faithfulness; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.

I am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honor and reputation.

Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.

There are few things in life more doleful than a child looking at a closed pool on a steamy summer day, and yet that sad scene has become as common as sunburns and mosquito bites as struggling local governments make the painful choice to shut their pools to save the budget. —

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

See everything. Overlook a great deal, improve a little.

The aim of justice is to give everyone his due.

Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.

I would not say that old men grow wise, for men never grow wise; and many old men retain a very attractive childishness and cheerful innocence. Elderly people are often much more romantic than younger people, and sometimes even more adventurous, having begun to realize how many things they do not kn ...

Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

Dare to be wise; begin! He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

When the cock is drunk, he forgets about the hawk.

A gentleman is man who never insults anyone unintentionally.

The original of all great and lasting societies consisted not in the mutual good will men had toward each other, but in the mutual fear they had of each other.

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.

Nadal’s the best player in history on [clay], and he is one of the best-ever players that played this game.

Liberty is a product of order.

A teacher affects eternity: he can never tell where his influence stops.

By patience and determination, rather than by a harsh upsetting of tradition, we move toward our national aspirations.... This is the way we get things done in America. One man tells another, does what he can, till the sum of these efforts grows into a national aspiration-a precious goal. Then occur ...

True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Know thyself.

Amendment is repentance.

The world’s history is a divine poem of which the history of every nation is a canto and every man a word. Its strains have been pealing along down the centuries, and though there have been mingled the discords of warring cannon and dying men, yet ... there has been a divine melody running through t ...

Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

We believe that prayer works miracles, and that all prayers are answered. But the greatest miracle is that some of them are actually answered exactly as we ourselves wish them to be.

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kind.

A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey’s gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind.

Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not faithfulness; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.

I am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honor and reputation.

Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.

There are few things in life more doleful than a child looking at a closed pool on a steamy summer day, and yet that sad scene has become as common as sunburns and mosquito bites as struggling local governments make the painful choice to shut their pools to save the budget. —

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

See everything. Overlook a great deal, improve a little.

The aim of justice is to give everyone his due.

Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.

I would not say that old men grow wise, for men never grow wise; and many old men retain a very attractive childishness and cheerful innocence. Elderly people are often much more romantic than younger people, and sometimes even more adventurous, having begun to realize how many things they do not kn ...

Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

Dare to be wise; begin! He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

When the cock is drunk, he forgets about the hawk.

A gentleman is man who never insults anyone unintentionally.

The original of all great and lasting societies consisted not in the mutual good will men had toward each other, but in the mutual fear they had of each other.

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.