Poems List

As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.

The best holistic remedy for high blood pressure is a purring cat on your lap.

Gather in your resources, rally all your faculties, marshal all your energies, focus all your capacities upon mastery of at least one field of endeavor.

If a man die young he hath left us at dinner; it is bed-time with a man of three score and ten; and he that lives a hundred years hath walked a mile after supper. This life is but one day of three meals, or one meal of three courses?childhood, youth, and old age. To sup well is to live well, and that?s the way to sleep well.

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself; neither do we rejoice therein, because we control our lusts, but contrariwise, because we rejoice therein, we are able to control our lusts.

There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots. The other is wings.

Concentration is my motto - first honesty, then industry, then concentration.

A man should not keep company with one whose character, family, and abode are unknown.

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not wish to sign his work.

The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, is to understand things by intuition.

To consider, Is this man of our own or an alien? is a mark of little-minded persons; but the whole earth is of kin to the generous-hearted.*

There is not a flower or bird in sight, only a small screen on which lines are moving, while the child sits almost motionless, pushing at the keyboard with one finger. As a learning environment, it may be mentally rich, but it is perceptually extremely impoverished. No smells or tastes, no wind or bird song (unless the computer is programmed to produce electronic tweets), no connection with soil, water, sunlight, warmth, the actual learning environment is almost autistic in quality, impoverished sensually, emotionally, and socially.

He who loves God cannot endeavor that God should love him in return.

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

When an individual fear or apathy passes by the unfortunate, life is of no account.

The lustre of a virtuous character cannot be defaced, nor can the vices of a vicious man ever become lucid. A jewel preserves its lustre, though trodden in the mud, but a brass pot, though placed upon the head, is brass still.

The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.

He who feels no compassion will become insane.

The wife of bad conduct?constantly pleased with quarrelling?she is known by wise men to be cruel Old Age in the form of a wife.

A love of tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril; but the new view must come, the world must roll forward.

The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.

To compare is not to improve.

His action no applause invites Who simply good with good repays; He only justly merits praise Who wrongful deeds with kind requites.*