Quotes About Balance

Let man keep his many parts and you'll have no tyrant states.

If only all the contradictory voices shouting inside my head would calm down and sing a song in unison, whatever it was I wouldn't care as long as they sang without dissonance; yes, and avoided the uncertain extremes of the scale.

You cannot have a deep sympathy with both man & nature. Those qualities which bring you near to the one estrange you from the other."  

Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.

The First wealth is health.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.

Your goodness must have some edge to it -- else it is none.

Nature hates calculators.

Every natural action is graceful.

The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood.

In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

Nothing is so strong as gentleness nothing so gentle as real strength

God offers to every mind a choice between repose and truth. take which you please--you can never have both. [Essay on Intellect]

The people are to be taken in very small doses.

Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes; it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is christianized, it is rich, it is scientific; but this change is not amelioration. For every thing that is given, something is taken.

It does not to dwell on dreams and forget to live, but it is equally foolish to ignore the past – never forget.

Evermore in the world is this marvelous balance of beauty and disgust, magnificence and rats.

The god of Victory is said to be one-handed, but Peace gives victory to both sides.

Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which animates all whom it floats, and you are without effort impelled to truth, to right and a perfect contentment.

There is in nature a parallel unity which corresponds to the unity in the mind and makes it available. This methodizing mind meets no resistance in its attempts. The scattered blocks, with which it strives to form a symmetrical structure, fit. This design following after finds with joy that like design went before. Not only man puts things in a row, but things belong in a row.

People are to be taken in very small doses. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

The man is the head of the house but the woman is the neck that turns the head.