Thomas Lynch Quotes

Wishes never filled the bag.

What is enough was never little.

Truth individualizes, love unites.

Put a stout heart to a steep hill.

The handsomest flower is not the sweetest.

In love, losing ourselves we find ourselves.

Wishers and Woulders are never good householders.

Many of our wishes have been and will be thwarted.

The heart assured by the truth — this is confidence.

A man who persists in genuineness will increase in adequacy.

Few things seem so possible as they are till they are attempted.

The wisest habit is the habit of care in the formation of habits.

Wisdom is not harsh-voiced and frowning, but benignant and approachable.

Our fidelity will not be without failures, nor our confidence without fear.

There is much novelty that is without hope, much antiquity without sacredness.

A man must keep his mouth open a long while before a roast pigeon flies into it.