To return to the Epigram Guide Webpage.The Divine Economy is automatic, and very simple: We receive only that which we give.
Slough your limitations.
The greatest joy in life is the joy of being "next."
Nothing is so fatal to integrity as pretense.
They will talk anyway! There is no one alive who is not a by-word to somebody.
To know the right woman is a liberal education.
Is he sincere? Probably not, if he is always asking this question about others.
One of the great evidences of self-control is the power to forget.
Life is a search for our own - for those whose hearts beat in unison with ours.
There are two kinds of people in this world - those who are always getting ready to do something, and those who go ahead and do it.
Give us the Bough, the Thou and the Jug in right proportion.
Happiness is a habit. Cultivate it.
Your relatives are people who neither know how to live or when to die.
Recipe for trouble: Take a little of nothing, and then put in some more nothing and stir up. Flavor with fear, a jigger of grouch, a piece of lemon, and serve hot to those nearest.
God looked upon His work and saw that it was good. That is where the clergy take issue with Him.
reserve a right mental attitude - the attitude of courage, frankness and good cheer. To think rightly is to create.
Is he sincere? Probably not, if he is always asking this question about others.
To be stupid when inclined and dull when you wish is a boon that goes only with high friendship.
The men who act their thought, and think little of their act, are the ones who score.
One arrives at art only by roads barred to the vulgar - by the road of prayer, of purity of heart: by confidence in the wisdom of the Eternal, and even in that which is incomprehensible.
The greatest joy in life is the joy of being "next."
Wisdom: A term Pride uses when talking of Necessity.
Life is a compromise between fate and free-will.
Preserve a right mental attitude - the attitude of courage, frankness and good cheer. To think rightly is to create.
To return to the Epigram Guide Webpage.