Intentions

He who loves his enemies betrays his friends; this surely is not what Jesus meant.

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable

You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never kiss the girls

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something

The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves

The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul

If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them

Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made

Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.

There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice

Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good

It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained