Quotations
H to M
“Observe good faith and justice toward all nations.
Cultivate peace and harmony with all.”
George Washington
First President of the United States
“Give man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he is happy or not."
George Bernard Shaw
English Author
“He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret
of a happy and holy life.”
William Law
English Author
“You think it was a very little thing, and in in these days it seems like a trifle, but it was the most important incident of my life. I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day by honest work. I was a hopeful and more thoughtful boy from that time.”
Abraham Lincoln
16th President of the United States
“For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.”
Aristotle
Philosopher
“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not.
Remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”
Epicurus
Greek Philosopher
“Humility is to make a right estimate of yourself.”
Charles Spurgeon
English Clergyman
“What sunshine is to flowers; smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure, but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable..
Joseph Addison
English Poet and Politician
“The redwood is one of the few conifers that sprout from the stump and roots. It declares itself willing to begin immediately to repair the damage of the lumberman
and forest-burner.”
John Muir
Naturalist
“Through or own recovered innocence we discern the innocence
of our neighbors.”
Henry David Thoreau
American Author
“Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.”
Michel de Montaigne
French Philosopher
“The function of intelligence is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically.
Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
American Minister
“The intuition of moral sentiment is an insight of the perfection of the laws of the soul. These laws execute themselves. They are out of time, out of space and not subject to circumstance.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
American Essayist
“Joy, feeling one’s own value, being appreciated and loved by others,
feeling useful and capable of production are all factors of enormous value for the human soul.”
Maria Montessori
Italian Educator
“Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides
in the hearts and souls of its citizens.”
Plato
Greek Philosopher
“You cannot so a kindness too soon; for you never know how soon
it will be too late.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
American Philosopher
“Let your hook always be cast.
In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish.”
Ovid
Roman Poet
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
American Clergyman
“Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts not amid joy.”
Felicia Hemans
English Poetess
‘If you would be loved, love and be lovable.”
Benjamin Franklin
Statesman and Inventor
“Whatever possession we gain by our sword cannot be sure or lasting,
but the love gained by kindness and moderation is certain and durable.”
Alexander the Great
A King in ancient Greece
“Many a friendship, long, loyal, and self-sacrificing, rested at first on no
thicker a foundation than a kind word.”
Fredrick William Faber
English Writer of Hymns
“There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations.”
Washington Irving
American Writer
“The waving of a pine tree on the top of a mountain – a magic wand in Nature’s hand –
every devout mountaineer knows its power but the marvelous beauty
of what the Scotch call a breckan in a still dell, what poet has sung this?"
John Muir
Scottish-American Naturalist
“Meekness is a grace which Jesus alone inculcated, and which no ancient philosopher
seems to have understood or recommended.”
Buckminster Fuller
American Architect
“A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy
of the puddles in the road.”
Alexander Smith
Scottish Poet
“The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes,
but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.”
Helen Keller
American Author
“It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world
and moral courage so rare.”
Mark Twain
Father of American Literature
