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To believe a business impossible is the way to make it so. How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination. - [Despondency] True courage is the result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable. Resolution lies more in the head than in the veins, and a just sense of honor and of infamy, of duty and of religion, will carry us farther than all the force of mechanism. - [Courage] Truth is the band of union and the basis of human happiness. Without this virtue there is no reliance upon language, no confidence in friendship, no security in promises and oaths. - [Truth] Vanity is a strong temptation to lying; it makes people magnify their merit, over flourish their family, and tell strange stories of their interest and acquaintance. - [Vanity] We must not let go manifest truths because we cannot answer all questions about them. - [Truth] What can be more honorable than to have courage enough to execute the commands of reason and conscience,--to maintain the dignity of our nature, and the station assigned us? - [Honor] What sun is there within us that shoots his rays with so sudden a vigor? To see the soul flash in the face at this rate one would think would convert an atheist. By the way, we may observe that smiles are much more becoming than frowns. This seems a natural encouragement to good-humor; as much as to say, if people have a mind to be handsome, they must not be peevish and untoward. - [Smiles] Without discretion, people may be overlaid with unreasonable affection, and choked with too much nourishment. - [Discretion] The road to heaven lies as near by water as by land. - Ecclesiastical History (IV, 241), (ed. 1852) [Heaven] Displaying page 3 of 3 for this author: << Prev 1 2 [3]
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