William Temple, Sr. Quotes
Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.
A man's wisdom is his best friend; folly, his worst enemy.
The best rules to form a young man are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's opinions, and value others that deserve it.
The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home.
The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.
There cannot live an unhappier creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.
The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.
Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.
Courage is not merely a virtue; it is the virtue. Without it, there are no other virtues.
Good intentions are at least, the seed of good actions; and every one ought to sow them, and leave It to the soil and the seasons whether He or any other gather they fruit.
