Quotes About Balance

To do great work a man must be very idle as well as very industrious.

Truth is generally kindness, but where the two diverge and collide, kindness should override truth.

To do great work one must be very idle as well as very industrious.

Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.

The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

An open mind is all very well in its way, but it ought not to be so open that there is no keeping anything in or out of it. It should be capable of shutting its doors sometimes, or it may be found a little drafty.

An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard only one side of the case. God has written all the books.

It is far safer to know too little than too much.  People will condemn the one, though they will resent being called upon to exert themselves to follow the other.

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it — and they do enjoy it as much as man and other circumstances will allow. He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most; God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us. If

Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great prosperity arrived at in a single lifetime.

With honesty of purpose, balance, a respect for tradition, courage, and, above all, a philosophy of life, any young person who embraces the historical profession will find it rich in rewards and durable in satisfaction.

You've got to take the bitter with the sour.

Do I believe in arbitration? I do. But not in arbitration between the lion and the lamb, in which the lamb is in the morning found inside the lion.

Similia similibus curantur [Likes are cured by likes].

The fact, in short, is that freedom, to be meaningful in an organized society must consist of an amalgam of hierarchy of freedoms and restraints.

My soul is dark with stormy riot: directly traced over to diet.

He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.

Wine gives great pleasure; and every pleasure is of itself a good. It is a good, unless counterbalanced by evil.

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.

The lustre of diamonds is invigorated by the interposition of darker bodies; the lights of a picture are created by the shades; the highest pleasure which nature has indulged to sensitive perception is that of rest after fatigue

There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.