Al David Quotes
We communicate like the burrows of foxes, in silence and darkness, under ground. We are undermined by faith and love.
In some countries a hunting parson is no uncommon sight. Such a one might make a good shepherd's dog, but is far from being the Good Shepherd.
For a man to act himself, he must be perfectly free; otherwise he is in danger of losing all sense of responsibility or of self- respect.
The stars are distant and unobtrusive, but bright and enduring as our fairest and most memorable experiences.
It requires more than a day's devotion to know and to possess the wealth of a day.
He who eats the fruit should at least plant the seed; ay, if possible, a better seed than that whose fruit he has enjoyed.
It is never too late to give up our prejudices. No way of thinking or doing, however, ancient, can be trusted without proof. ... Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.
For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once well done is done forever.
We should seek to be fellow students with the pupil, and should learn of, as well as with him, if we would be most helpful to him.
The virtues of a superior man are like the wind; the virtues of a common man are like the grass; the grass, when the wind passes over it, bends.
The value of any experience is measured, of course, not by the amount of money, but the amount of development we get out of it.
If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself. Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
Will you be a reader, a student merely, or a seer? Read your fate, seewhat isbefore you, and walkon intofuturity.
Genius is a light which makes the darkness visible, like the lightning's flash, which perchance shatters the temple of knowledge itself.
But they who are unconcerned about the consequences of their actions are not therefore unconcerned about their actions.
I look upon England today as an old gentleman who is travelling with a great deal of baggage, trumpery which has accumulated fromlong housekeeping, which he has not the courage to burn.
We soon get through with nature. She excites an expectation which she cannot satisfy.
One piece of good sense would be more memorable than a monument as high as the moon.
I am a citizen of the world first, and of this country at a later and more convenient hour.
Why should we leave it to Harper & Brothers and Redding & Co. to select our reading?
The bad are frequently good enough to let you see how bad they are, but the good as frequently endeavor to get between you and themselves.
One man lies in his words, and gets a bad reputation; another in his manners, and enjoys a good one.
The object of love expands and grows before us to eternity, until it includes all that is lovely, and we become all that can love.
When the true criminals are running around free, the only honorable place for a decent human being is in prisons.
Such is the never-failing beauty and accuracy of language, the most perfect art in the world; the chisel of a thousand years retouches it.
How shall we account for our pursuits, if they are original? We get the language with which to describe our various lives out of acommon mint.
Let a slight snow come and cover the earth, and the tracks of men will show how little the woods and fields are frequented.
How sweet it would be to treat men and things, for an hour, for just what they are!
If Columbus was the first to discover the islands, Americus Vespucius and Cabot, and the Puritans, and we their descendants, havediscovered only the shores of America.