Famous Quotes

Quotes by William

• The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
• The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.
• The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.
• The golden age is before us, not behind us.
• The good physician treats the disease the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.
• The goodness of a thing created is the perfection of its fitness for the use which it serves. Now that use is either particular or universal.
• The great hope of society is in individual character.
• The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
• The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
• The greatest job I ever had was working on my family farm. Each morning my father would come into my bedroom around 4:30 am and command me to get up and work the fields. I would spend the next two hours before school slopping pigs and cropping tobacco.
• The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.
• The groves were God's first temples.
• The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.
• The home is the chief school of human virtues.
• The hours of folly are measured by the clock but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
• The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.
• The humblest painter is a true scholar and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.
• The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
• The Imperial German Government will not expect the Government of the United States to omit any word or any act necessary to the performance of its sacred duty of maintaining the rights of the United States and its citizens and of safeguarding their free exercise and enjoyment.
• The important things are children, honesty, integrity and faith.
• The incentive to ambition is the love of power.
• The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
• The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.
• The last few years have been my happiest. I'm happy in the years that most people are blue and sad and waiting to die. I don't feel that a bit. Smiling has a lot to do with it. You can just lift your spirits by smiling a little bit.
• The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.
• The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical.
• The love of heaven makes one heavenly.
• The love of liberty is the love of others the love of power is the love of ourselves.
• The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.
• The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.
• The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist.
• The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and laugh at his own misfortune.
• The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
• The message I take all round the world is Britain is open for business.
• The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.
• The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away than what it leaves behind.
• The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.
• The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home.
• The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors.
• The most powerful element in advertising is the truth.
• The mysteriousness and mystique of space is such, that science fiction attempts to tantalize you by telling you a story that could possibly be out there and that's the appeal of science fiction.