Quotes About Balance

There is the same world for all of us, and good and evil, sin and innocence, go through it hand in hand.  To shut one's eyes to half of life that one may live securely is as though one blinded oneself that one might walk with more safety in a land of pit and precipice.

Perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place.

To begin with, I dined there on Monday, and once a week is quite enough to dine with one's own relations.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast.

Those who see any difference between soul and body have neither

That is one of the secrets of life - to cure the soul by means of the senses, and the senses by means of the soul. You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.

I suppose one must be serious sometimes.

In her dealings with man, destiny never closed her accounts.

To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomat - the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know how much oil to mix in with one's vinegar.

How does one cure the soul? Through the senses

To be good is to be in harmony with ones self. Discord is to be forces to be in harmony with others.

Things last either too long or not long enough.

Love is a wonderful thing. It is more precious than emeralds and dearer than fine opals. pearls and pomegranates cannot buy it, nor is it set forth in the market-place. It may not be purchased of the merchants, nor can it be weighted out in the balance for gold.

One should never take sides in anything, Mr. Kelvil. Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore.

We all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.

When they make up their ledger, they balance stupidity by wealth, and vice by hypocrisy.

To cure the soul by means of the senses, and the senses by means of the soul.

in every pleasure, cruelty has its place...

Sweet rains fall on just and unjust alike

Most people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honour.

Surely Love is a wonderful thing. It is more precious than emeralds, and dearer than fine opals. Pearls and pomegranates cannot buy it, nor is it set forth in the market-place. It may not be purchased of the merchants, nor can it be weighed out in the balance for gold.

In life there is really no great or small thing. All things are of equal value and of equal size.

The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing.

Oh my dear fellow...should you not be askind, 'Would the tea like the cup?