There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.
There is no surer proof of Christ's divinity than that he is still so hated some two thousand years after his death.
Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer.
The more a leader is in the habit of demanding from his men, the surer he will be that his demands will be answered.
The older I get, the surer I am that I'm not running the show.
Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant.
Write: write letters. Keep journals. Besides your children, there is no surer way of achieving immortality.
And now Jacques Laffitte is as close to Surer as Surer is to Laffitte
There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.
I have said it many a time, and am surer of it than ever, that the life and death issue of Christianity is the inspiration and authority of the Bible.
There is no surer or more painful way to learn a rule than to be penalized once for breaking it.
There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art.
If sensuality be our only happiness we ought to envy the brutes, for instinct is a surer, shorter, safer guide to such happiness than reason.
Nature has a surer plan than mortals can devise.
Grandma cheated whenever she could. She cheated because it was a much more scientific and surer way of winning than trusting to luck.
There is no surer mark of a low and unregenerate nature than this tendency of power to loudness and wantonness instead of quietness and reverence. To souls baptized in Christian nobleness the largest sphere of command is but a wider empire of obedience, calling them, not to escape from holy rule, but to its full impersonation.
We legislate against forestalling and monopoly; we would have a common granary for the poor; but the selfishness which hoards thecorn for high prices, is the preventative of famine; and the law of self-preservation is surer policy than any legislation can be.
Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.
A sound heart is a surer guide than an ill-trained conscience.
Nothing is surer than that the people will be weak.
