Post #2560

As a man's salutation, so is the total of his character; in nothing do we lay ourselves so open as in our manner of meeting and salutation.
—Johann Kaspar Lavater

Post #2559

Thou art in the end what thou art. Put on wigs with millions of curls, set thy foot upon ell-high rocks. Thou abidest ever-what thou art.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Post #2558

A warm blundering man does more for the world than a frigid wise man.
—Rev. Richard Cecil

Post #2557

He receives more favours who knows how to return them.
—Publilius Syrus

Post #2556

Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
—Alexander Pope

Post #2555

Ah! would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way, from the eye, through the-arm to the pencil, how much is lost!
—Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Post #2554

Young men think old men fools, and old men know young men to be so.
—Quoted by Camden as a saying "of one Dr, Metcalf"

Post #2553

The object of the superior man is truth.
—Confucius

Post #2552

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
—Benjamin. Disraeli

Post #2551

A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.
—Tacitus

Post #2550

It was wisely said, by a man of great observation, that there are as many miseries beyond riches as on this side of them.
—Izaak Walton

Post #2549

In ancient days the most celebrated precept was, "know thyself"; in modern times it has been supplanted by the more fashionable maxim, "Know thy neighbor and everything about him."
—Samuel Johnson

Post #2548

Life was intended to be so adjusted that the body should be the servant of the soul, and always subordinate to the soul.
—J. G. Holland

Post #2547

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
—Henry David Thoreau

Post #2546

Adversity is the first path to truth.
—Lord Byron