Quotes about Balance

To place man properly at the present time, he stands somewhere between the angels and the French.

I have so much to do today that I must set apart more time than usual to pray.

It is impossible for one man both to labor day and night to get a living, and at the same time give himself to the study of sacred learning as the preaching office requires.

For business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity.

The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.

A full belly is of little worth where the mind is starved, and the heart.

Death is to life as heaven is to hell they're both dependent on each other

All diets are wholesome. Some are wholesomer than others, but all the ordinary diets are wholesome enough for the people who use them. Whether the food be fine or coarse it will taste good and it will nourish if a watch be kept upon the appetite and a little starvation introduced every time it weakens.

The billiard table is better than the doctor.

One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right when the head is totally wrong

One of the greatest problems of history is that the concepts of love and power are usually contrasted as polar opposites. Love is identified with a resignation of power and power with a denial of love. What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive and that love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against love.

When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.