Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.
Do not ask your children to strive for extraordinary lives. Such striving may seem admirable, but it is the way of foolishness. Help them instead to find the wonder and the marvel of an ordinary life. Show them the joy of tasting tomatoes, apples and pears. Show them how to cry when pets and people die. Show them the infinite pleasure in the touch of a hand. And make the ordinary come alive for them. The extraordinary will take care of itself.
I give myself, sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.
To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god!
Poirot," I said. "I have been thinking." "An admirable exercise my friend. Continue it.
It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.