To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.
It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
The whole power of cunning is privative; to say nothing, and to do nothing , is the utmost of its reach. Yet men, thus narrow by nature and mean by art, are sometimes able to rise by the miscarriages of bravery and the openness of integrity, and, watching failures and snatching opportunities, obtain advantages which belong to higher characters.
If one avoids haughtiness to the utmost extent and is exceedingly humble, he is termed a saint, and this is the standard of saintliness.
He who excels in his art so as to carry it to the utmost height of perfection of which it is capable may be said in some measure to go beyond it: his transcendent productions admit of no appellations.
Unnecessary hustle is one of the American follies. We hustle at both work and play, and consequently enjoy neither to the utmost.
The government will support you to the utmost of its ability, which is neither more nor less than it has done and will do for allcommanders.
Giving comfort under affliction requires that penetration into the human mind, joined to that experience which knows how to soothe, how to reason, and how to ridicule; taking the utmost care never to apply those arts improperly.
The kids are Job One. So, to be quite candid, if they need me, I do my utmost to make sure I'm there.
With the superciliousness of extreme youth, I put thirty-five as the utmost limit at which a man might fall in love without making a fool of himself.
I tolerate with the utmost latitude the right of others to differ from me in opinion without imputing to them criminality.
Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.
Have the utmost respect for your subjects. Love them.
Only those who develop their minds and spirits to the utmost can serve Heaven and fulfill their own destinies.
In business, I've discovered that my purpose is to do my best to my utmost ability every day. That's my standard. I learned early in my life that I had high standards.
The happy State of Matrimony is, undoubtedly, the surest and most lasting Foundation of Comfort and Love. . . the Cause of all good Order in the World, and what alone preserves it from the utmost Confusion.
Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim in it as in the brightest and least ambiguous of elements: even a glance towards land, even the thought that one perhaps exists for something else as well as swimming, even the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature
No man has a right to disturb the public peace, by personally resisting the execution of a law however bad. He ought to acquiesce, using at the same time the utmost powers of his reason, to promote its repeal.
What distinguishes the language of science from language as we ordinarily understand the word?. . . What science strives for is an utmost acuteness and clarity of concepts as regards their mutual relation and their correspondence to sensory data.
Wine displays every little spot of the soul in its utmost deformity.