William Matthews Quotes
The difficulties, hardships and trials of life, the obstacles... are positive blessings. They knit the muscles more firmly, and teach self-reliance.
Be methodical if you would succeed in business, or in anything. Have a work for every moment, and mind the moment's work.
The same disappointments in life will chasten and refine one man's spirit, embitter another's.
The petty cares, the minute anxieties, the infinite littles which go to make up the sum of human experience, like the invisible granules of powder, give the last and highest polish to a character.
As frost, raised to its utmost intensity, produces the sensation of fire, so any good quality, overwrought and pushed to excess, turns into its own contrary.
Unless a man has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him ridiculous.
One well-cultivated talent, deepened and enlarged, is worth one hundred shallow faculties.
Criminals are opportunists. If you've got a booming market, they're going to get away with more fraud.
It is not, of course, the subject that is or isn't dull, but the quality of attention that we do or do not pay to it. Dull subjects are those we have failed.
The easiest way for me to lose interests is to know too much of what I want to say before I begin.
What lasting progress was ever made in social reformation, except when every step was insured by appeals to the understanding and the will?
Talking, is a digestive process which is absolutely essential to the mental constitution of the man who devours many books.
God has so framed us as to make freedom of choice and action the very basis of all moral improvement, and all our faculties, mental and moral, resent and revolt against the idea of coercion.
The fullest instruction, and the fullest enjoyment are never derived from books, till we have ventilated the ideas thus obtained in free and easy chat with others.
With the "civilized" person contentment is a myth. From the cradle to the grave they are forever longing and striving after something better, an indefinable something, some new object yet unattained.
One well-cultivated talent deepened and enlarged is worth one hundred shallow faculties.
The difficulties hardships and trials of life the obstacles ... are positive blessings. They knit the muscles more firmly and teach self-reliance.
The first law of success ... is concentration: to bend all the energies to one point and to go directly to that point looking neither to the right nor the left.