Poems List

Tempt not a desperate man.

Any man with a moderate income can afford to buy more books than he can read in a lifetime.

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

There is no pleasure of life sprouting like a tree from one root but there is some pain joined to it; and again nature brings good out of evil.

Courage conquers all things.

When the destroyer comes, his first act will be to destroy all the books.

When you see a man elated with pride, glorying in his riches and high descent, rising even above fortune, look out for his speedy punishment; for he is only raised the higher that he may fall with a heavier crash.

Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied.

I have learned, in whatever state I am ,therewith to be content.

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

Many years ago Rudyard Kipling gave an address at McGill University in Montreal. He said one striking thing which deserves to be remembered. Warning the students against an over-concern for money, or position, or glory, he said: "Some day you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are."

He who labours diligently need never despair. We can accomplish every thing by diligence and labour.

For nonconformity the world whips you with its displeasure.

The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created--created first in the mind and will, created next in activity. The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made, and the activity of making them, changes both the maker and the destination.

The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.

We are like vessels tossed on the bosom of the deep; our passions are the winds that sweep us impetuously forward; each pleasure is a rock; the whole life is a wide ocean. Reason is the pilot to guide us, but often allows itself to be led astray by the storms of pride.

The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try nothing and succeed.

It is pleasing to God whenever you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart.

As gold is tried by the furnace, and the baser metal shown, so the hollow-hearted friend is known by adversity.

Results are what you expect, and consequences are what you get.

Trade-offs have been with us ever since the late unpleasantness in the Garden of Eden.

I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free.

If our inward griefs were written on our brows, how many who are envied now would be pitied. It would seem that they had their deadliest foe in their own breast, and their whole happiness would be reduced to mere seeming.

Consciousness of our powers augments them.