When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with its fall but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
Of all paths a man could strike into there is at any given moment a best path which here and now it were of all things wisest for him to do. To find this path and walk in it is the one thing ne...
If you can walk you can dance. Zimbabwe saying Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man, but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.
Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.
All work of man is as the swimmer's: a vast ocean threatens to devour him if he front it not bravely it will keep its word.
The end of man is action.
If you look deep enough you will see music the heart of nature being everywhere music.
Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.
In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom we have to say, Like People like Government.
Time is the silent never-resting thing ... rolling rushing on swift silent like an all-embracing oceantide on which we and all the universe swim.
Burke said there were three Estates in Parliament but in the reporters' gallery yonder there sat a fourth Estate more important than them all.
Man is a tool-using animal.
Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament but in the Reporters' gallery yonder there sat a Fourth Estate more important far than they all.
Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Give me a man who sings at his work.
Acorns are planted silently by some unnoticed breeze.
True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.