शांत Quotes

The grand aim of all science is to cover

the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction

from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.

Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.

Blacks have had to learn to protect themselves

by being cynical but not cynical enough to slam

the door on potential opportunities.

We go through life walking a tightrope

to prevent too much disillusionment.

Purity or impurity depends on oneself.

Life is too short to live someone else’s life.

Christmas is a season for

kindling the fire for

hospitality in the hall,

the genial flame of

charity in the heart.

The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.

Life is a puzzle,

and comedy is the way we try to make sense of it.

Time reveals what is hidden,

and prophecy guides the mind to reflection.

A more secret, sweet,

and overpowering beauty appears to man

when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue.

Friendship,

like the immortality of the soul,

is too good to be believed.

The great illusion is that we are what we own.

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well

being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

It may be laid down as a primary position,

and the basis of our system,

that every Citizen who enjoys,

the protection of a Free Government,

owes not only a proportion of his property,

but even of his personal services to the defense of it.

Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.

Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.

The martyr cannot be dishonored.

Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame;

every prison a more illustrious abode.

If the tongue had not been

framed for articulation,

man would still be a beast in the forest.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity

in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.