Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.
So long as thou are ignorant be not ashamed to learn. Ignorance is the greatest of all infirmities, and when justified, the chiefest of all follies.
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.
There is a proverbial saying chiefly concerned with warning against too closely calculating the numerical value of un-hatched chicks.
Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.
What is man's chief enemy? Each man is his own.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more.
I read no newspaper now but Ritchie's, and in that chiefly the advertisements, for they contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.