Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.

In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed; we see the most indistinctly the objects which are close around us.

He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.

Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.

Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man.

A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.

There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.

To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.

To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.

Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.

Unless people can be kept in the dark, it is best for those who love the truth to give them the full light.

It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do.

As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, 'What is truth?'

The happiest lot for a man, as far as birth is concerned, is that it should be such as to give him but little occasion to think much about it.

Preach not because you have to say something, but because you have something to say.

Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.

Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Happiness is no laughing matter.

A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.

It is generally true that all that is required to make men unmindful of what they owe God for any blessing is that they should receive that blessing often and regularly.

All men wish to have truth on their side; but few to be on the side of truth.

It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.

To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another.

Lose an hour in the morning, and you will be all day hunting for it.

Lose an hour in the morning, and you will be all day hunting for it.

To know your ruling passion examine your castles in the air.

Even supposing there were some spiritual advantage in celibacy it ought to be completely voluntary

Curiosity is as much the parent of attention as attention is of memory.

In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed, we see most dimly the objects which are close around us.

Of metaphors, those generally conduce most to energy or vivacity of style which illustrate an intellectual by a sensible object.

Persecution is not wrong because it is cruel; but it is cruel because it is wrong.

The relief that is afforded to mere want, as want, tends to increase that want.

It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.

It is folly to shiver over last year's snow.

Superstition is not, as has been defined, an excess of religious feeling, but a misdirection of it, an exhausting of it on vanities of man's devising.

The bronze powder business, however, no longer required my personal attention, and was well managed by those I had chosen as the guardians of a secret, which was long and honourably kept.

The kinds of shows that seem to work now, the comedy shows, are those which require very little attention. They're superficial and I like articulate comedy.

The constant attention is what is so difficult.

As a scientist, my attention became totally focused on global warming some 15 years ago by the elegant and powerful measurements of carbon dioxide trapped in ice cores taken as much as 2 miles deep from the great East Antarctica ice sheet.

Anytime you have a difficult encounter with your child, there is a good chance that at least one of these factors is bringing out the worst in him or her: transitions, time pressure, competition for your attention, conflicting objectives.

I think it would have been a lot better for him to say, I did it and I'm sorry, McGwire was never one to show a lot of emotion on the field, not a player who sought attention and craved to be thought of as a nice guy.

I wanted to write a story that demanded the viewer's attention.

After some minor pieces of theoretical study that I worked on, a student in my statistical mechanics class brought to my attention a problem in polyelectrolytes.

I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.

If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.

There's a lot of other movies I like, but I don't even pay attention to directors to tell you the truth.

The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into attention, a grip on our eyeballs and eardrums, which in turn can be marketed to advertisers.

The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.