BENJAMIN JOWETT

Young men make great mistakes in life; for one thing, they idealize love too much.

You must believe in God, in spite of what the clergy say.

You've got to be success minded. You've got to feel that things are coming your way when you're out selling; otherwise, you won't be able to sell anything.

We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.

One man is as good as another until he has written a book.

Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard.

The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality.

My dear child, you must believe in God despite what the clergy tells you.

Doubt comes in at the window when inquiry is denied at the door.

To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.

Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.

Logic is neither a science nor an art, but a dodge.

There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants - more than anything else - to become rich. As long as they don't have the money, it'll seem like a worthwhile goal. Once they do, they'll understand how important other things are - and have always been.

Research! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.

The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit.

There is a great deal of hard lying in the world; especially among people whose characters are above suspicion.

Give the clergy your sympathy; don't give them anything else.

It is most important in this world to be pushing, but it is fatal to seem so.

I am not blaming the past. ... But I want the peace of God to settle on the future.

Precautions are always blamed. When successful they are said to be unnecessary.

Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard - both as regards the monuments and the inscriptions. Scarcely a word of true poetry anywhere.

All translation is a compromise - the effort to be literal and the effort to be idiomatic.