I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.

Worry not that no one knows of you; seek to be worth knowing.

What can be found equal to modesty, uncorrupt faith, the sister of justice, and undisguised truth?

It's like a convent, the hospital. You leave the world behind and take vows of poverty, chastity, obedience.

All great virtues become great men.

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

The ordinary corporation is a person for purposes of the adjudicatory processes, whether it represents proprietary, spiritual, aesthetic, or charitable causes. So it should be as respects valleys, alpine meadows, rivers, lakes, estuaries, beaches, ridges, groves of trees, swampland, or even air that feels the destructive pressures of modern technology and modern life. The river, for example, is the living symbol of all the life it sustains or nourishes - fish, aquatic insects, water ouzels, otter, fisher, deer, elk, bear, and all other animals, including man, who are dependent on it or who enjoy it for its sight, its sound, or its life. The river as plaintiff speaks for the ecological unit of life that is part of it.

Putting off an easy thing makes it hard, and putting off a hard one makes it impossible.

Truth has not special time of its own. Its hour is now-always and indeed then most truly when it seems unsuitable to actual circumstances. -Albert Schweitzer.

Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be forgiven him, indeed, they will be regarded as high qualities, if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Liberty is being free from the things we don't like in order to be slaves of the things we do like.

What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.

One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.

His work well done, the leader stepped aside Spurning a crown with more than kingly pride. Content to wear the higher crown of worth, While time endures, "First citizen of earth."

Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is as a flower without perfume.

'Tis good-will makes intelligence.

A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.

When Adam dolve, and Eve span, Who was then the gentleman?

You always find something in the last place you look.

O you much partial gods! Why gave ye men affections, and not power To govern them?