William Matthews Quotes.
The power of music that poetry lacks is the ability to persuade without argument.
The same disappointments in life will chasten and refine one man’s spirit, embitter another’s.
The easiest way for me to lose interests is to know too much of what I want to say before I begin.
It is not, of course, the subject that is or isn’t dull, but the quality of attention that we do or do not pay to it. Dull subjects are those we have failed.
One well-cultivated talent, deepened and enlarged, is worth one hundred shallow faculties.
Be methodical if you would succeed in business, or in anything. Have a work for every moment, and mind the moment’s work.
Talking, is a digestive process which is absolutely essential to the mental constitution of the man who devours many books.
Go to the desk. Stay at the desk. Thrive at the desk.
There is a wide difference between general acquaintance and companionship. You may salute a man and exchange compliments with him daily, yet know nothing of his character, his inmost tastes arid feelings.
One wellcultivated talent, deepened and enlarged, is worth 100 shallow faculties. The first law of success in this day, when so many things are clamoring for attention, is concentration-to bend all the energies to one point, and to go directly to that point, looking neither to the right nor to the left.
Be methodical if you would succeed in business, or in anything. Have a work for every moment, and mind the moment’s work. Whatever your calling, master all its bearings and details, its principles, instruments and applications. Method is essential if you would get through your work easily and with economy of time.
The smallest thing, well done, becomes artistic.
We all have two childhoods, the unhappy one and the happy one.
Unless a man has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him ridiculous.
As frost, raised to its utmost intensity, produces the sensation of fire, so any good quality, overwrought and pushed to excess, turns into its own contrary.
God has so framed us as to make freedom of choice and action the very basis of all moral improvement, and all our faculties, mental and moral, resent and revolt against the idea of coercion.
