Donald G. Mitchell Quotes
"I love better to count time from spring to spring; it seems to me far more cheerful to reckon the year by blossoms than by blight."
- Donald G. Mitchell
(Related: Love, Time, Spring)
"But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties."
- Donald G. Mitchell
(Related: Wealth, Security)
"The future is wider than vision, and has no end."
- Donald G. Mitchell
(Related: Vision, End, Future)
"I care not how worldly you may be: there are times when all distinctions seem like dust, and when at the graves of the great you dream of a coming country, where your proudest hopes shall be dimmed forever."
- Donald G. Mitchell
(Related: Dream, Care, Country, May)
"I thank Heaven every summer's day of my life, that my lot was humbly cast within the hearing of romping brooks, and beneath the shadow of oaks."
- Donald G. Mitchell
(Related: Life, Brooks, Day, Hearing, Heaven, Shadow, Summer)
"In the vanity of self-consciousness one feels at a long remove above the ordinary love and trustfulness of a simple and pure heart."
- Donald G. Mitchell
(Related: Love, Heart, Self, Vanity)
"No man's brain is so dull, and no man's eye so blind, that they cannot catch food for dreams."
- Donald G. Mitchell
(Related: Dreams, Food, Blind, Eye, Man)
"The sparrow that is twittering on the edge of my balcony is calling up to me this moment a world of memories that reach over half my lifetime, and a world of hope that stretches farther than any flight of sparrows."
- Donald G. Mitchell
(Related: Hope, Memories, Sparrows, World)
"The way of a man's heart will be foreshadowed by what goodness lies in him - coming from above, and from around; but a way foreshadowed is not a way made."
- Donald G. Mitchell
(Related: Heart, Goodness, Lies, Man, Will)
"There is no genius in life like the genius of energy and industry."
- Donald G. Mitchell
(Related: Life, Genius, Energy)
"You grow up however, unfortunately, as the college years fly by, into a very exaggerated sense of your own capacities."
- Donald G. Mitchell
(Related: College, Sense, Years)
"Youth is in a grand flush, like the hot days of ending summer; and pleasant dreams thrall your spirit, like the smoky atmosphere that bathes the landscape of an August day."
- Donald G. Mitchell
(Related: Dreams, Day, Ending, Spirit, Summer, Youth)
"Determine to become one of the best. Sufficient money will almost automatically follow if you get to be one of the "best" in your chosen field, whatever it is."
- Donald G. Mitchell
(Related: Money, Will)