For all you lurkers with a low post count

[the GOAT]

The habit of being uniformly considerate toward others will bring increased happiness to you.

 

[the GOAT]

I do hate sums. There is no greater mistake than to call arithmetic an exact science. There are permutations and aberrations discernible to minds entirely noble like mine; subtle variations which ordinary accountants fail to discover; hidden laws of number which it requires a mind like mine to perceive. For instance, if you add a sum from the bottom up, and then from the top down, the result is always different.

 

[the GOAT]

She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.

 

[the GOAT]

What we call despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

 

[the GOAT]

Money will not make you happy, and happy will not make you money.

 

[the GOAT]

You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.

 

[the GOAT]

The country shall be independent, and we will be satisfied with nothing short of it.

 

[the GOAT]

No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.

 

[the GOAT]

Put your trust in the living God and all will be right in time and eternity.

 

[the GOAT]

Habit must play a larger place in our religious life. We worship when we feel like it, we pray when we feel like it. We read the Bible when we feel like it. Leaving our religious exercises to the promptings of impulse, we become creatures of impulse rather than soldiers of Christ. An army made up of creatures of impulse would be only a mob. So is a church.

 

[the GOAT]

Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live.

 

[the GOAT]

Just standing around looking beautiful is so boring, really boring, so boring.

 

[the GOAT]

You can not pluck roses without fear of thorns, Nor enjoy a fair wife without danger of horns.

 

[the GOAT]

People seldom become famous for what they say until after they are famous for what they've done.

 

[the GOAT]

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

 

[the GOAT]

The time to enjoy a European tour is about three weeks after you unpack.

 

[the GOAT]

It's important to me that money not be important to me.

 

[the GOAT]

The best therapy for emotional blocks to math is the realization that the human race took centuries or millennia to see through the mist of difficulties and paradoxes which instructors now invite us to solve in a few minutes.

 

[the GOAT]

Our life is frittered away with detail ... Simplify, simplify.

 

[the GOAT]

When we try to pick anything out by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.