Adrienne Becker Quotes

All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster`s eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you.

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

Enjoy things which are pleasant; that is not the evil: it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.

The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self-activity.

Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.

A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.