Quotes About Balance

A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and his public nature.

No society can ever be so large as one man.

If the gatherer gathers too-much, Nature takes out of the man what she puts into his chest; swells the estate, but kills the owner. Nature hates, monopolies and exceptions.

Vices and frailties correct each other, like acids and alkalies. If each vicious man had but one vice, I do not know how the world could go on.

Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him, all his life long.

Men are not angels, neither are they brutes.

White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so; life's business being just the terrible choice.

Not to sink under being man and wife, But get some color and music out of life?

Classical theology has erred in its insistence that theology be 'God-centered,' not 'man-centered'.

Leisure, some degree of it, is necessary to the health of every man's spirit.

Order is man's greatest need, and his true well-being.

Church and State, Soul and Body, God and Man, are all one at Mont Saint Michel, and the business of all is to fight, each in his own way, or to stand guard for each other.

Nature has left nothing to the mercy of man.

Since all things are good, men fail at last to distinguish which is the bane and which the antidote.

I should be glad if all the meadows on the earth were left in a wild state, if that were the consequence of men's beginning to redeem themselves.

There is considerable danger that a man will be crazy between dinner and supper; but it will not directly answer any good purposethat I know of, and it is just as easy to be sane.

We seem to think that the earth must go through the ordeal of sheep-pasturage before it is habitable by man.

I was daily intoxicated, yet no man could call me intemperate.

A rich man cannot enjoy a sound mind nor a sound body without exercise and abstinence; and yet these are truly the worst ingredients of poverty.

Do not be duped by little duties. Do not be a chore man all your days.

...in certain moods, no man can weigh this world without throwing in something, somehow like Original Sin, to strike the uneven balance.

Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.

I love men who have a lot going on in their lives, like I do.

I fear no man, no woman; flower does not fear bird, insect nor adder.