Issue 294
- Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life;
the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
- A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
- To be able to stand not knowing long enough for something alive to take shape!
- Chance favors the prepared mind.
- A politician thinks of the next election
- a statesman, of the next generation.
- Practice no vice because it's trivial...
Neglect no virtue because it's so.
- Fear collides with our most conservative self
and allows us to stop before we try,
dismiss before we think, mock before we imagine.
- The delight we inspire in others, has this enchanting peculiarity. That,
unlike any other reflection, returns to us more radiant than ever.
- "Hate the sin & not the sinner" is a percept which,
though easy enough to understand, is rarely practiced,
and therefore the poison of hatred spreads in the world.
- Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and
who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts,
find that new worlds open for them.
As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.