Plan the town, if you like; but in doing it do not forget that you have got to spread the people. Make wider roads, but do not narrow the tenements behind. Dignify the city by all means, but not at the expense of the health of the home and the family life and the comfort of the average workman and citizen.
Prevention is so much better than healing because it saves the labor of being sick. - Thomas Adams
Prevention is so much better than healing because it saves the labor of being sick.
- Thomas Adams
He who is proud of his knowledge, has gout in the wrong end. - Thomas Adams
He who is proud of his knowledge, has gout in the wrong end.
Grace comes into the soul as the morning sun into the world: there is first a dawning, then a mean light, and at last the sun in his excellent bright… - Thomas Adams
Grace comes into the soul as the morning sun into the world: there is first a dawning, then a mean light, and at last the sun in his excellent bright…
He who demands mercy and shows none ruins the bridge over which he himself is to pass. - Thomas Adams
He who demands mercy and shows none ruins the bridge over which he himself is to pass.
The ambitious climb high and perilous stairs, and never care how to come down; the desire of rising hath swallowed up their fear of a fall. - Thomas Adams
The ambitious climb high and perilous stairs, and never care how to come down; the desire of rising hath swallowed up their fear of a fall.
He who reforms himself, has done much toward reforming others; and one reason why the world is not reformed, is, because each would have others make … - Thomas Adams
He who reforms himself, has done much toward reforming others; and one reason why the world is not reformed, is, because each would have others make …
That which a man spits against heaven, shall fall back on his own face. - Thomas Adams
That which a man spits against heaven, shall fall back on his own face.
A man may be so bold of his predestination, that he forget his conversation. - Thomas Adams
A man may be so bold of his predestination, that he forget his conversation.
As God by creation made two of one, so again by marriage He made one of two. - Thomas Adams
As God by creation made two of one, so again by marriage He made one of two.
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