Quotes About Balance

I have often thought him since, like the steam hammer, that can crush a man or pat an eggshell, in his combination of strength with gentleness

certain it is that minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort, and like them, are often successfully cured by remedies in themselves very nauseous and unpalatable.

What is the secret, my darling, of your being everything to all of us, as if there werre only one of us, yet never seeming to be hurried, or to have too much to do? -Darney to Lucie

Let us take heed how we laugh without reason, lest we cry with it.

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

To do a great right, you may do a little wrong; and you may take any means which the end to be attained will justify.

It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that, while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.

Anything for a quiet life; as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Ah, rather overdone, M'Choakumchild. If he had only learnt a little less, how infinitely better he might have taught much more!

When a man's his own enemy, it's only because he's too much his own friend; not because he's careful for everybody but himself. Pooh! Pooh! There ain't such a thing in nature.

The fact is, that there was considerable difficulty in inducing Oliver to take upon himself the office of respiration,—a troublesome practice, but one which custom has rendered necessary to our easy existence; and for some time he lay gasping on a little flock mattress, rather unequally poised between this world and the next: the balance being decidedly in favour of the latter.

Es una justa, equitativa y noble ley de compensación de la naturaleza que, siendo infecciosas la enfermedad y la tristeza, no haya en el mundo nada tan irresistiblemente contagioso como la risa y el buen humor.

Being practical people, we never allow anybody to scare the birds; and the birds, being practical people too, come about us in myriads.

Death is Nature's remedy for all things,

In Secret II. The Grindstone III. The Shadow IV. Calm in Storm

his face thrown up to the sky, and his head hanging down; then recovered himself, fumbled with his cap, and made a bow.

in short, I should have liked, I do confess, to have had the lightest licence of a child, and yet to have been man enough to know its value.

For gracious sake, don't talk about Liberty; we have quite enough of that.

There was a curious mixture in the boy, of uncompleted savagery, and uncompleted civilization.

Next Mrs. Crupp said it was clear she couldn't be in two places at once (which I felt to be reasonable). . .

Ah Miss Harriet, it would do us no harm to remember oftener than we do, that vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

a man must take the fat with the lean; that's what he must make up his mind to, in this life.

I will live in the Past, Present and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach.

Your greatest danger is letting the urgent things crowd out the important.