The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home.
From William Temple
The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.
I have always looked upon alchemy in natural philosophy to be like enthusiasm in divinity, and to have troubled the world much to the same purpose.
There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.
Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.
Man's wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy.
When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I don't, they don't.
The problem of evil... Why does God permit it? Or, if God is omnipotent, in which case permission and creation are the same, why did God create it?
Our present time is indeed a criticizing and critical time, hovering between the wish, and the inability to believe. Our complaints are like arrows shot up into the air at no target: and with no purpose they only fall back upon our own heads and destroy ourselves.
The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.
2 perspectives
1 perspectives