“I apply the Abraham Lincoln test for moral casuistry: “If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.” Well, then, if waterboarding does not constitute t…
Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
—Thomas Edison
There are four powers: memory and intellect, desire and covetousness. The two first are mental and the others sensual. The three senses sight, hearing, and smell cannot well be prevented; touch and taste not at all.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly.
—Søren Kierkegaard
We might well pray for God to invade & conquer us, for until He does we remain in peril. The strength of our flesh is an ever present danger to our souls. Deliverance can come only by the defeat of our old life. Safety & peace come only after we have been forced to our knees.
“Before looking at new investments, we consider adding to old ones. If a business is attractive enough to buy once, it may well pay to repeat the process.”
“If we can’t find things within our circle of competence, we won’t expand the circle. We’ll wait.”
— Warren Buffett
“Oh that we may have such an estimate of the value of a single soul that we count whole days well spent to bring one fallen woman or one drunkard to the Saviour’s feet.”
I will in the evening read for half an hour at least the Old Testament, with which I am not well acquainted.
—William Wilberforce
In a well governed state, there are few punishments, not because there are many pardons, but because criminals are rare; it is when a state is in decay that the multitude of crimes is a guarantee of impunity.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Never forget the good that people have done for you; tell others about it and try to repay them with good as well.
—Leo Tolstoy
If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don’t bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he’s a good man.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don’t bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he’s a good man.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
“I say therefore, this morning, in the name of the Lord Jesus, to all of you who love him, Look well to the weak ones of the church.”
– Charles Spurgeon
He is to *sprinkle* that blood upon their souls; he is to *create* the holiness in them that they long after; he is to be himself in them a *well* of water springing up to eternal life.
—John Owen
It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.
—Michelangelo
Faith . . . reaches out in a single act to the person of Christ as well as to Scripture. It embraces Christ as Savior and Scripture as the word of God.
—Herman Bavinck
My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; that in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest.
—Charles Dickens
During life all has gone well with me, so far as God has ordered matters, and all the evil has been the result of my own follies.
—William Wilberforce
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to appellation.
—George Washington
That he is doubtless ready enough to pity us under temptations, we may be assured, for he has been tempted and buffeted by Satan as well as we.
—Jonathan Edwards
The Tao is like a well: used but never used up.
—Laozi
Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
—Voltaire
If we search within ourselves, we can almost always find the very sin we condemn someone else for. If we don’t find precisely that sin, all we have to do is search and we’ll find something worse.
—Leo Tolstoy
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
—Oscar Wilde
No one can truly recognize the equality of people in life as well as children can. So how criminal it is for adults to teach them that there are kings, rich men & celebrities whom you must respect, and servants, workers and beggars whom you’re allowed to treat with condescension.
—Leo Tolstoy
May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.
—Franz Kafka
All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“My brother said to me, the other day, when he had been seeing one of our members pass away, Brother, we can say to one another what the two Wesleys said, ‘Our people die well.’”
– Charles Spurgeon
If aliens ever visit us, I think the outcome would be much as when Christopher Columbus first landed in America, which didn’t turn out very well for the Native Americans.
—Stephen Hawking