The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation..

Whatever he says, let his inner resolution be not to bear whatever comes to him, but to bear it 'for a reasonable period'--and let the reasonable per….

You are quaffing drink from a hundred fountains: whenever any of these hundred yields less, your pleasure is diminished. But when the sublime founta….

The people who live in the past must yield to the people who live in the future. Otherwise the world would begin to turn the other way round..

If, by chance, someone among those men of extraordinary talent is found who has firmness of soul and who refuses to yield to the genius of his age an….

The best Armour of Old Age is a well spent life preceding it; a Life employed in the Pursuit of useful Knowledge, in honourable Actions and the Pract….

The best real-estate investments with the highest yields are in working-class neighborhoods, because fancy properties are overpriced..

Let arms yield to the toga, let the [victor's] laurel yield to the [orator's] tongue..

The dream is a series of images, which are apparently contradictory and nonsensical, but arise in reality from psychologic material which yields a cl….

If the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such laws and enfor….