Able Quote by William Godwin

Few maxims are true in every respect.

— Anonymous

There are plenty of maxims in the world; all that remains is to apply them.

— Blaise Pascal

All the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice.

— Blaise Pascal

“The maxim, as has been already said, is a general statement, and people love to hear stated in general terms what they already believe…

— Aristotle

A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. Good maxims are the germs of all excellence; when firmly…

— Joseph Joubert

Fretfulness of temper will generally characterize those who are negligent of order.

— Hugh Blair

.. that a rule, which, in speculation, may seem the most advantageous to society, may yet be found, in practice, totally pernicious and destructive.

— David Hume

“All people of broad, strong sense have an instinctive repugnance to the men of maxims; because such people early discern that the mysterious complexity…

— George Eliot

To the one, a little natural moderation and quietness of temper may be sufficient to conduct us: but to the other, we can only…

— William Wilberforce

“The most violent revolutions in an individual's beliefs leave most of his old order standing. Time and space, cause and effect, nature and history,…

— William James

Here is a golden Rule.... Write legibly. The average temper of the human race would be perceptibly sweetened, if everybody obeyedthis Rule!

— Lewis Carroll

“My third maxim was to endeavour always to conquer myself rather than fortune, and change my desires rather than the order of the world,…

— René Descartes