Quotes about Balance

Many a poor sore-eyed student that I have heard of would grow faster, both intellectually and physically, if, instead of sitting up so very late, he honestly slumbered a fool's allowance.

The natural remedy is to be found in the proportion which the night bears to the day.

How can you expect the birds to sing when their groves are cut down?

I do not refuse the Blue-Pearmain, I fill my pockets on each side; and as I retrace my steps in the frosty eve, being perhaps four or five miles from home, I eat one first from this side, and then from that, to keep my balance.

To enjoy a thing exclusively is commonly to exclude yourself from the true enjoyment of it. Let us improve our opportunities, then, before the evil days come.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. As if a town had no interest in its forests but to cut them down!

do not let your left hand know what your right hand does, for it is not worth knowing.

I doubted if the near neighborhood of man was not essential to a serene and healthy life.

I need thy hate as much as thy love.

while theology should inform a Christian's relationship with God, it should never take its place.

And there is all the difference in the world between paying and being paid.