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Isaac Watts: What's amiss I'll...

Isaac Watts: What's amiss I'll...

What's amiss I'll strive to mend,
And endure what can't be mended.


Source: In...

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Lemuel B Haynes: [Satan] is a...

Lemuel B Haynes: [Satan] is a...

[Satan] is a very laborious, unwearied preacher. He has been in the minis try almost six thousand years, and yet his...

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Mother Teresa: God doesn't require...

Mother Teresa: God doesn't require...

God doesn't require us to succeed; he only requires that you try.

Source: In...

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Mahatma Gandhi: Adaptability is not...

Mahatma Gandhi: Adaptability is not...

Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.

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Kingsley Amis: Outside every fat...

Kingsley Amis: Outside every fat...

Outside every fat man there is an even fatter man trying to close in.

Source: One...

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Georges Bernanos: It is the...

Georges Bernanos: It is the...

It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

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Frederic Raphael: The great networks...

Frederic Raphael: The great networks...

The great networks are there to prove that ideas can be canned like spaghetti. If everything ends up by tasting like...

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C S Lewis: Education without values,...

C S Lewis: Education without values,...

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever...

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Harry Emerson Fosdick: No steam or...

Harry Emerson Fosdick: No steam or...

No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is...

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Hosea Ballou: Theories are always...

Hosea Ballou: Theories are always...

Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.

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Harry Emerson Fosdick: Picture yourself vividly...

Harry Emerson Fosdick: Picture yourself vividly...

Picture yourself vividly as winning, and the alone will contribute immeasurably to...

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Robert E Lee: Never do a...

Robert E Lee: Never do a...

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Source: In Wisdom of the...

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Robert E Lee: A true man...

Robert E Lee: A true man...

A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others.

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Colin Powell: Perpetual optimism is...

Colin Powell: Perpetual optimism is...

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

Source: In Reader's Digest.
-- Colin...

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Francois LaRochefoucauld: We hardly find...

Francois LaRochefoucauld: We hardly find...

We hardly find any persons of good sense save those who agree with us.

Source: In...

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Henry James, Jr: It takes a...

Henry James, Jr: It takes a...

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

Source: Hawthorne,...

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Robertson Davies: Whether you are...

Robertson Davies: Whether you are...

Whether you are really right or wrong doesn't matter; it's the belief that counts.

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Annie Dillard: I woke in...

Annie Dillard: I woke in...

I woke in bits, like all children, piecemeal over the years. I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and...

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Harriet Beecher Stowe: Nobody had ever...

Harriet Beecher Stowe: Nobody had ever...

Nobody had ever instructed him that a slave-ship, with a procession of expectant sharks in its wake, is a missionary...

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Jessamyn West: A taste for...

Jessamyn West: A taste for...

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor for it takes irony to appreciate the joke...

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