Truth will lose its credit, if delivered by a person that has none.

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.

Passion is the drunkenness of the mind.

Truth will lose its credit, if delivered by a person that has none.

If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.

Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise.

Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends.

Wonder is from surprise, and surprise stops with experience.

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.

It is idleness that creates impossibilities; and where people don't care to do anything, they shelter themselves under a permission that it cannot be done.

Repentance hath a purifying power and every tear is of a cleansing virtue but these penitential clouds must be still kept dropping one shower will not suffice for repentance is not one single action but a course.

True repentance has a double aspect it looks upon things past with a weeping eye and upon the future with a watchful eye.

Innocence is like polished armor it adorns and defends.

Guilt upon the conscience like rust upon iron both defiles and consumes it gnawing and creeping into it as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.

What the F.D.I.C. does is to put the full faith and credit of the United States government behind every savings account in the nation, up to a limit that has changed over the years and stands now at $100,000.

Over and over again, financial experts and wonkish talking heads endeavor to explain these mysterious, 'toxic' financial instruments to us lay folk. Over and over, they ignobly fail, because we all know that no one understands credit default obligations and derivatives, except perhaps Mr. Buffett and the computers who created them.

Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talks of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile.

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.

When you take a look at the problems our country is facing, debt is No. 1. The math is downright scary and the credit markets aren't going to keep on giving us cheap rates.

It's just that back then we didn't know that was considered being a coproducer. I would sit on the side and say what I wanted musically, but at the time we thought if you aren't the one playing it, you don't get the credit. Now you'll start seeing my name listed as producer.

Money is a poor man's credit card.

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

You can always make a film somehow. You can beg, borrow, steal the equipment, use credit cards, use your friends' goodwill, wheedle your way into this or that situation. The real problem is, how do you get people to see it once it is made?

No one ever taught me and I can't teach anyone. If you can't explain it, how can you take credit for it?

A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.

Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.

Once a nation parts with the control of its credit, it matters not who makes the laws.

I do think actually in this case the government does get credit for funding some of the basic research.

And I have to credit David Jacobs with the opportunities he gave me. He was totally into sharing the creation of characters. David put together a show that told the story of people over many years' time and that was greatly enjoyable. Though nowadays that is frowned upon.

He only seems to me to live, and to make proper use of life, who sets himself some serious work to do, and seeks the credit of a task well and skillfully performed.

The business of a bank is to lend money; which amounts, nowadays, to lending credit.

I give Cronkite a whole lot of credit.

President Reagan always gave the credit to the American people and American ideals. He treated his job as a valuable temporary loan from the American people, a loan that should be respected and returned with dutiful appreciation.

God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion as well as the satisfaction of their conscience that their Easter devotions would in some measure come up to their Easter dress.

You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your own soul's doing.

Remember that credit is money.

The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none.

The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit.

Several times we were stranded in strange places without any money and with our credit cards cancelled - trapped in a hotel that we couldn't check out of because we had no money to check out.

We've gotta give Richard Williams a lot of credit - to give us two number one champions is a phenomenal feat.

Before the arrival of the Credit Union, people who were from the poor background or a working class background couldn't borrow from banks.

There's probably more in the American tradition than people give the place credit for.

There is a spiritual hunger in the world today - and it cannot be satisfied by better cars on longer credit terms.

Here is my general approach to the energy companies. You have already charged the utilities a 50 percent credit penalty for the power they were buying from you. You're charging us a penalty. You're not going to get two bites of the apple here.

Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought.