“The Bible is not merely a book-it is a living power. . . . Nowhere as in the Bible can be found such a series of beautiful ideas and admirable maxims which pose before us like the battalions of a celestial army. . . . The soul can never go astray while it has this book for its guide.” LifeBookIdeasSoulBeautifulFoundArmySeriesGuidesMaximsAdmirableCelestial Author:Napoleon Bonaparte
“I know nothing more enjoyable than that happy-go-lucky wandering life, in which you are perfectly free; without shackles of any kind, without care, without preoccupation, without thought even of to-morrow. You go in any direction you please, without any guide save your fancy.” KnowsLifeKindCarePleaseLuckyGuidesWanderFancyEnjoyablePreoccupationMorrowShacklesHappy Go Lucky Book:The Horla and Other Stories Source: The Horla and Other Stories
“Poverty, we may say, surrounds a man with ready-made barriers, which if they do mournfully gall and hamper, do at least prescribe for him, and force on him, a sort of course and goal; a safe and beaten, though a circuitous, course. A great part of his guidance is secure against fatal error, is withdrawn from his control. The rich, again, has his whole life to guide, without goal or barrier, save of his own choosing, and, tempted, is too likely to guide it ill.” IfsMenLifeMayMadeWholeCoursesForceGoalPovertyRichReadySafeErrorsIllGuidesWhole LifeSecureGuidanceBarriersSurroundBeatenTemptedHamper Book:The Works of Thomas Carlyle Source: The Works of Thomas Carlyle
“We are like vessels tossed on the bosom of the deep; our passions are the winds that sweep us impetuously forward; each pleasure is a rock; the whole life is a wide ocean. Reason is the pilot to guide us, but often allows itself to be led astray by the storms of pride.” LifeReasonWholeLife IsPassionPleasureRocksWindPrideOceanStormWideGuidesWhole LifePilotsVesselBosoms Author:Pietro Metastasio