Al David Quotes

I have remembered Who wept for a parting between the living and the dead.

The only way to tell the truth is to speak with kindness. Only the words of a loving man can be heard

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.

See how he cowers and sneaks, how vaguely all the day he fears, not being immortal nor divine, but the slave and prisoner of his own opinion of himself, a fame won by his own deeds.

In Buddhism we would say that you are lazy... Despising yourself, thinking you are no good, saying 'I can't do this.' This is the mind of weakness. You must work to overcome it .

What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.

God himself culminates in the present moment, and will never be more divine in the lapse of all the ages.

You deepen the injury. It is sufficient already.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

There is no such thing as accomplishing a righteous reform by the use of 'expediency.' There is no such thing as sliding up hill. In morals, the only sliders are backsliders.

A man who will steal for me will steal from me." Theodore Roosevelt, dismissing on the spot one of his best cowhands who was about to claim for his boss an unmarked animal.

What is most of our boasted so-called knowledge but a conceit that we know something, which robs us of the advantage of our actual ignorance?

The silence rings—it is musical & thrills me. A night in which the silence was audible—I hear the unspeakable.

Silence is the communing of a conscious soul with itself.

The fate of the country... does not depend on what kind of paper you drop into the ballot-box once a year, but on what kind of man you drop from your chamber into the street every morning.

for the people must have some complicated machinery or other, and hear its din, to satisfy that idea of government which they have.

The value of a man is not in his skin, that we should touch him.

A government which deliberately enacts injustice, and persists in it, will at length ever become the laughing-stock of the world.

It is a very remarkable and significant fact that though no man is quite well or healthy yet every one believes practically that health is the rule & disease the exception.

As his (C. S. Lewis's) good friend Owen Barfield once remarked, Lewis radiated a sense that the spiritual world is home, that we are always coming back to a place we have never yet reached.

We now no longer camp as for a night, but have settled down on earth and forgotten heaven

We are more of the earth, Farther from heaven these days.

Now-a-days, men wear a fool's cap, and call it a liberty cap.

I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

A man thinking or working will always be alone, let him be where he will.

Your church is a baby-house made of blocks.

Our life is frittered away by detail...Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let our affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand...Simplify, simplify!

that he live in all respects so compactly and preparedly that, if an enemy take the town, he can, like the old philosopher, walk out the gate empty-handed without anxiety.

The reason is, because it’s of more importance to community, that innocence should be protected, than it is, that guilt should be punished.

Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it shor

The most perfect happiness, surely, must arise from the contemplation of the most perfect object.

For our path in life...is stony and rugged now, and it rests with us to smooth it. We must fight our way onward. We must be brave. There are obstacles to be met, and we must meet, and crush them!

A date is an experience you have with another person that makes you appreciate being alone.

Thu luxury of one class is counterbalanced by the indigence of another.

It is not enought to be busy, so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

The true price of anything you do is the amount of time you exchange for it.

To enjoy a thing exclusively is commonly to exlcude yourself from the true enjoyment of it.

If we would aim at perfection in any thing, simplicity must not be overlooked.

The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

Surely you're not saying that the life of a human and the life of an animal are of the same value?' he ven

I didn't know you had a cat!' she excl

The society of girls is a very delightful thing, Copperfield. It's not professional, but it's very delightful.

There never were greed and cunning in the world yet, that did not do too much, and overreach themselves. It is as certain as death.

Genius is not a retainer to any emperor, or is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a trifling extent.

It is truly enough said that a corporation has no conscience. But a corporation of conscientious men is a corporation with a conscience.

Is there not a sort of blood shed when the conscience is wounded? Through this wound a man's real manhood and immortality flow out, and he bleeds to an everlasting death

have you taken leave of your senses

I believe that, in this country, the press exerts a greater and a more pernicious influence than the church did in its worst period. We are not a religious people, but we are a nation of politicians.

No doubt you can get more in your market for a quart of milk than for a quart of blood, but that is not the market that heroes carry their blood to.