“But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.”
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“Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.”
“Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.”
“The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.”
“If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order.”
“In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.”
“I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.”
“Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.”
“As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.”
“You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.”
“Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.”
“We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.”
“We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done.”
“The wildest colts make the best horses.”
“The best interpreter of the law is custom.”
“I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?”
“A majority is always better than the best repartee.”
“The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.”
“I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher.”
“I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.”
“The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.”
“For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.”
“Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.”
“Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.”