It Is Better To Light One Small

The Expectations Of Life Depend Upon Diligence; The Mechanic That Would Perfect His Work Must First Sharpen His Tools.

I Have Never Seen One Who Really Loves Goodness Or One Who Really Hates Wickedness. One Who Really Loves Goodness Will Not Place Anything Above It. One Who Really Hates Wickedness Will Practice Goodness In Such A Way That Wickedness Will Have No Chance To Get At Him. Is There Anyone Who Has Devoted His Whole Strength To Doing Good For Even As Long As A Single Day? I Have Not Seen Anyone Give Up Such An Attempt Because He Had Not The Strength To Go On. Perhaps There Is Such A Case, But I Have Never Seen It.

On Matters Beyond His Ken A Gentleman Speaks With Caution. If Names Are Not Right, Words Are Misused. When Words Are Misused, Affairs Go Wrong. When Affairs Go Wrong, Courtesy And Music Droop, Law And Justice Fail. And When Law And Justice Fail Them, A People Can Move Neither Hand Nor Foot. So A Gentleman Must Be Ready To Put Names In Speech, To Put Words Into Deeds. A Gentleman Is Nowise Careless Of Words.

Men Of Principle Are Sure To Be Bold, But Those Who Are Bold May Not Always Be Men Of Principle.

Music Produces A Kind Of Pleasure Which Human Nature Cannot Do Without.