Quotes about Balance

Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is therefore always represented as blind.

I am very much concerned when I see young gentlemen of fortune and quality so wholly set upon pleasures and diversions, that they neglect all those improvements in wisdom and knowledge which may make them easy to themselves and useful to the world.

Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader makes allowances for many rests and nodding places in a voluminous writer.

Physick, for the most part, is nothing else but the Substitute of Exercise or Temperance.

I will not be discouraged by failure I will not be elated by success.

Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.

As terrifying and painful as reality can be, it's also the only place where you can find true happiness.

The bottom of the egg was weighted, so it wobbled slightly before standing perfectly upright—like a Weeble. (Weebles wobble, but they don't fall down.)

You know: "dogs and cats living together … mass hysteria!

The inner world is as real as the outer world. One ought to be conscious of that… These two worlds are fed by each other, you must not neglect one at the expense of the other, must not deem one more important than the other.

How can I lead people into the quiet place beside the still waters if I am in perpetual motion? How can I persuade a person to live by faith and not by works if I have to juggle my schedule constantly to make everything fit into place?

The very moment you separate body and spirit, you end up with a corpse. Separate faith and works and you get the same thing: a corpse.