THOUGHT-A-DAY
Archive August/September 2002
August 19, 2002
Troubles are usually the brooms and shovels that smooth the road to a good man's fortune; and many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away hunger.
-- Basil
August 20, 2002
Fear is an acid which is pumped into one's atmosphere. It causes mental, moral and spiritual asphyxiation, and sometimes death; death to energy and all growth.
-- Horace Fletcher
August 21, 2002
Every man is a volume, if you know how to read him.
-- Channing
August 22, 2002
We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.
-- Rabindranath Tagore
September 5, 2002
One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
-- Woodrow Wilson
September 6, 2002
Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.
-- George Washington
September 11, 2002
To be a good American means to understand the simple principles on which our nation was founded, to observe them in our daily life and to fight for them.
--Newbold Morris
September 15, 2002
Friendships are fragile gifts and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.
-- Randolph S. Bourne
September 18, 2002
Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope, and few are reduced so low as that.
--Hazlitt
September 19, 2002
We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it, including the thorns.
-- Orison S. Marden
September 20, 2002
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
--Benjamin Franklin
