Thought for Today

"It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement."

~~~~~ Anthony Trollope

Thought for Today

"Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost."

~~~~~ Chauncey Depew

Thought for Today

"Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones."

~~~~~ Charlotte Bronte

Thought for Today

"The more help a person has in his garden, the less it belongs to him."

~~~~~ W. H. Davies

Thought for Today

"Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct."

~~~~~ Thomas Jefferson

Thought for Today

"Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character."

~~~~~ Henry Clay

Thought for Today

"A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company."

~~~~~ Charles Evans Hughes

Thought for Today

"There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start."

~~~~~ Charles Baudelaire

Thought for Today

"The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves."

~~~~~ William Ellery Channing

Thought for Today

"The man who can speak acceptably is usually given credit for an ability out of all proportion to what he really possesses."

~~~~~ Lowell Thomas

Thought for Today

"Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company."

~~~~~ Booker T. Washington

Thought for Today

"An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather."

~~~~~ Washington Irving

Thought for Today

"I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile."

~~~~~ Walter Chrysler

Thought for Today

"Human societies, like human beings, live by faith and die when faith dies."

~~~~~ Whittaker Chambers

Thought for Today

"You can't imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays."

~~~~~ Nikolai Gogol

Thought for Today

"The nations of antiquity rolled away in the current of ages, Israel alone remained one indestructible edifice of gray antiquity... preserved by an internal and marvelous power."

~~~~~ Isaac Mayer Wise

Thought for Today

"There are few retreats, that can escape the penetrating eye of avarice."

~~~~~ Thomas Clarkson

Thought for Today

"Half our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel."

~~~~~ John Churton Collins

Thought for Today

"For the saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished freedom is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch forth a saving hand while there was still time."

~~~~~ George Sutherland

Thought for Today

"It is because the people are citizens that they are with safety armed."

~~~~~ Joel Barlow