All quotes

These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale, but surely, surely, a great rich country like ours will see that those who are dependent on us are properly provided for.

All who have meant good work with their whole hearts, have done good work, although they may die before they have the time to sign it.

Failure in any good cause is, however, honourable, whilst success in any bad cause is merely infamous.

What is done in business must be well done; for it is better to accomplish perfectly a small amount of work, than to half-do ten times as much.

There is a dignity in the very effort to save with a worthy purpose, even though the attempt should not be crowned with eventual success.

Let us strive hardily for success even if by so doing we risk failure, spurning the poorer souls of small endeavor who know neither failure nor success.

Much has been given us, and much will rightfully be expected from us.

our responsibility is heavy, to ourselves, to the world as it is to-day, and to the generations yet unborn

The most rational cure after all for the inordinate fear of death is to set a just value on life.

Resolve to be honest at all events; and if in your own judgment you cannot be an honest lawyer, resolve to be honest without being a lawyer.

Our cause, then, must be intrusted to, and conducted by, its own undoubted friends--those whose hands are free, whose hearts are in the work, who do care for the result.

The soul should take care of the body, just as a pilgrim on his way to Mecca takes care of his camel.

The oath taken in the presence of the people becomes a mutual covenant.

This is love, that we should walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, even as you heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it.

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

For it is God who works in you both to will and to work for his good pleasure.

How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! Yes, to get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.

One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty; one who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city.

A man’s heart plans his course, but Yahweh directs his steps.

The basic condition of human life is union; the organic social relation, the interchange of functional service, wherein the individual is most advantaged, not by his own exertions for his own goods, but by the exchange of his exertions with the exertions of others for goods produced by them together.

The inevitable trend of human life is toward higher civilization.

An actor, in order to earn approval, is not bound to perform the play from beginning to end; let him only satisfy the audience in whatever act he appears.

At the center of this movement is a crucial conviction: that a nation exists to serve its citizens.

When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice.

Our attempts to banish this importunate duty will only make it return upon us again and again, and every time in a shape more unpleasant than the former.