J. Petit-Senn Quotes
Our interests are grains of opium to our consciences, but they only put it to sleep for a terrible awakening.
The grave is a crucible where memory is purified; we only remember a dead friend by those qualities which make him regretted.
Some delicate matters must be treated like pins, because if they are not seized by the right end, we get pricked.
In giving alms, let us rather look at the needs of the poor than his claim to your charity.
The true worth of a soul is revealed as much by the motive it attributes to the actions of others as by its own deeds.
We forget the origin of a parvenu if he remembers it; we remember it if he forgets it.
Do not crowd the understanding; it can comprehend so much and no more. A pint pot will not contain the measure of a quart.
People who declare that they belong to no party certainly do not belong to ours.
It is only before those who are glad to hear it, and anxious to spread it, that we find it easy to speak ill of others.
How many wells of science there are in whose depths there is nothing but clear water!
Adversity, which makes us indulgent to others, renders them severe towards us.
When our friends are alive we see the good qualities they lack dead we remember only those they possessed.
