Will Christian
Will Christian
money men long
Men were created for something better than merely to make money. A close application to business, until a competence is gained, is one of the chief virtues; but to continue in trade long after this result is obtained, is one of the signs, not to be mistaken, of a sordid and ignoble nature.
success mind gimlets
Successful minds work like a gimlet--to a single point.
weapons causes logic
Logic invents as many fallacies as it detects; it is a good weapon, but as liable to be used in a bad as in a good cause.
fighting imagination enemy
Our courage is greater to dare a visible than an imagined danger. A visible danger rouses our energies to meet or avert it; a fancied peril appalls from its presenting nothing to be resisted. Thus, a panic is, usually, a sudden going over to the enemy of our imagination. All is then lost, for we have not only to fight against that enemy, but our imagination as well.
self morbid cures
The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.
evil way poverty
Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.
beauty eye half
The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
self worst delusion
The worst deluded are the self-deluded.
truth sun submit
Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
death loss heaven
The loss of a beloved connection awakens an interest in Heaven before unfelt.
criticism deserve
No work deserves to be criticized that has not much in it that deserves to be applauded.
courage easier dies
It is easier to die bravely than to live so.
beauty art charm
It is one of the arts of a great beauty to heighten the effect of her charms by affecting to be sweetly unconscious of them.
beauty laughing distinction
Beauty can afford to laugh at distinctions: it is itself the greatest distinction.