If honesty did not exist, it would have to be invented, as it is the surest way of getting rich.
The surest path to success is to surround yourself with brilliant women
The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.
Our responding to life's unfairness with sympathy. . . may be the surest proof of all of God's reality.
The surest way to health, say what they will, Is never to suppose we shall be ill; Most of the ills which we poor mortals know From doctors and imagination flow.
As with the acquisition, so with the use of money; they way in which a man spends it is often one of the surest tests of character.
The surest way of concealing from others the boundaries of one s own knowledge is not to overstep them.
The avoidance of loss is the surest way to ensure a profitable outcome.
What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?
One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.
The surest sign that God is alive in you is joy.
Prayer is the surest remedy against the devil and besetting sins.
Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.
The most attractive sentences are, perhaps, not the wisest, but the surest and roundest. They are spoken firmly and conclusively,as if the speaker had a right to know what he says, and if not wise, they have at least been well learned.
Every concert pianist knows that the surest way to ruin a performance is to be aware of what the fingers are doing. Every dancer and acrobat knows enough to let the mind go, let the body run itself. Every driver of a manual vehicle arrives at destinations with no recollection of the stops and turns and roads traveled in getting there. You are all sleepwalkers, whether climbing creative peaks or slogging through some mundane routine for the thousandth time. You are all sleepwalkers.
Publicity is the very soul of justice. It is the keenest spur to exertion, and the surest of all guards against improbity.
Perhaps our national ambition to standardize ourselves has behind it the notion that democracy means standardization. But standardization is the surest way to destroy the initiative, to denumb the creative impulse above all else essential to the vitality and growth of democratic ideals.
Fathers and mothers are too absorbed in business and housekeeping to study their children, and cherish that sweet and natural confidence which is a child's surest safeguard, and a parent's subtlest power.
Personal happiness seems mysteriously and frustratingly elusive. Even when people achieve it, they can't hold onto it. That is the greatest clue, the biggest hint, the surest sign that something's amiss.
The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.