Hamilton Wright Mabie Quotes
Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind.
To have a quiet mind is to possess one's mind wholly; to have a calm spirit is to possess one's self.
Real freedom comes from the mastery, through knowledge, of historic conditions and race character, which makes possible a free and intelligent use of experience for the purpose of progress.
Genius can do much, but even genius falls short of the actuality of a single human life.
A man can never be idle with safety and advantage until he has been so trained by work that he makes his freedom from times and tasks more fruitful than his toil has been.
The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had the means, time, influence and educational advantages, but what he will do with the things he has.
It is better to go down on the great seas which human hearts were made to sail than to rot at the wharves in ignoble anchorage.
The germs of all truth lie in the soul, and when the ripe moment comes, the truth within answers to the fact without as the flower responds to the sun, giving it form for heat and color for light.
There is no kind obondage which life lays upon us that may not yield both sweetness and strength; and nothing reveals a man's character more fully than the spirit in which he bears his limitations.
