Website owner: James Miller
Quotations --- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.
We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others, that in the end, we become disguised to ourselves.
The only thing constant in life is change.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
Almost all our faults are more pardonable than the methods we resort to to hide them.
The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it.
When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
How can you expect another to keep a secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?
If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others.
Thinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the already overburdened vocabulary.
One may outwit another, but not all the others.
We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.
We would often be ashamed of our best actions if the world only knew the motives behind them.
How rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
All passions make us commit mistakes, but love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
Listening well and answering well is one of the greatest perfections that can be obtained in conversation.
It is more shameful to distrust one's friends than to be deceived by them.
Everyone complains of his memory, and no one complains of his judgment.
Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
We always like those who admire us; we do not always like those whom we admire.
Some beautiful things are more impressive when left imperfect than when than when too highly finished.
Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest man, and renders the greatest fools clever.
Hypocrisy is a tribute that vice pays to virtue.
We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
Few things are needed to make a wise man happy; nothing can make a fool content; that is why most men are miserable.
Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves.
In all aspects of life, we take on a part and an appearance to seem to be what we wish to be--and thus the world is merely composed of actors.
Imagination could never invent the number of different contradictions that exist innately in each person's heart.
Jesus Christ and His Teachings
Way of enlightenment, wisdom, and understanding
America, a corrupt, depraved, shameless country
On integrity and the lack of it
The test of a person's Christianity is what he is
Ninety five percent of the problems that most people have come from personal foolishness
Liberalism, socialism and the modern welfare state
The desire to harm, a motivation for conduct
On Self-sufficient Country Living, Homesteading
Topically Arranged Proverbs, Precepts, Quotations. Common Sayings. Poor Richard's Almanac.
Theory on the Formation of Character
People are like radio tuners --- they pick out and listen to one wavelength and ignore the rest
Cause of Character Traits --- According to Aristotle
We are what we eat --- living under the discipline of a diet
Avoiding problems and trouble in life
Role of habit in formation of character
Personal attributes of the true Christian
What determines a person's character?
Love of God and love of virtue are closely united
Intellectual disparities among people and the power in good habits
Tools of Satan. Tactics and Tricks used by the Devil.
The Natural Way -- The Unnatural Way
Wisdom, Reason and Virtue are closely related
Knowledge is one thing, wisdom is another
My views on Christianity in America
The most important thing in life is understanding
We are all examples --- for good or for bad
Television --- spiritual poison
The Prime Mover that decides "What We Are"
Where do our outlooks, attitudes and values come from?
Sin is serious business. The punishment for it is real. Hell is real.
Self-imposed discipline and regimentation
Achieving happiness in life --- a matter of the right strategies
Self-control, self-restraint, self-discipline basic to so much in life