Ability in man is an apt good, if it be applied to good ends.
Fools are apt to imitate only the defects of their betters.
When a fortune comes without calling, it's apt to leave without asking.
The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses.
Businesses planned for service are apt to succeed businesses planned for profit are apt to fail.
Seldom or never is a poor man honored by the world; however worthy of honor he may be, he is apt rather to be despised by it.
We may define "faith" as the firm belief in something for which there is no evidence. Where there is evidence, no one speaks of "faith. " We do not speak of faith that two and two are four or that the earth is round. We only speak of faith when we wish to substitute emotion for evidence. The substitution of emotion for evidence is apt to lead to strife, since different groups, substitute different emotions.
If deceiving the eye were the only business of the art. . . the minute painter would be more apt to succeed. But it is not the eye, it is the mind which the painter of genius desires to address.
I know too well that these arguments from probabilities are imposters, and unless great caution is observed in the use of them, they are apt to be deceptive.
I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.
When there is a tendency to compartmentalize the spiritual and make it resident in a certain type of life only, the spiritual is apt gradually to be lost.
We are all apt to believe what the world believes about us.
A multitude of words doth rather obscure than illustrate, they being a burden to the memory, and the first apt to be forgotten, before we come to the last. So that he that uses many words for the explaining of any subject, doth, like the cuttle-fish, hide himself, for the most part, in his own ink.
Love is apt to make lunatics of even men and saints.
Men of great parts are often unfortunate in the management of public business, because they are apt to go out of the common road by the quickness of their imagination.
The best leaders are apt to be found among those executives who have a strong component of unorthodoxy in their character. Instead of resisting innovation, they symbolize it.
I am apt to be harsh in my secret judgments of others, seeing them as defective because they are not enough like me.
Once the bear's hug has got you, it is apt to be for keeps.
When people are placed in positions slightly above what they expect, they are apt to excel.
The saying of John Peale Bishop is worth recalling, that the South excelled in two things which the French deem essential to civilization: a code of manners and a native cuisine. Both are apt to suffer when life is regarded as a means to something else. Efficiency and charm are mortal enemies, and Southern charm indubitably derives from a carelessness about the efficient aspects of life.