Joseph Cook famous quotes

So many people glorify and romanticize 'busy.' I do not. I value purpose. I believe in resting in reason and moving in passion. If you’re always busy/moving, you will miss important details. I like the mountain. Still, but when it moves, lands shift and earth quakes.
-- Joseph Cook

#Believe #Moving #Passion

Only the home can found a state.
-- Joseph Cook

#Home

God is making commerce His missionary.
-- Joseph Cook

#Missionary #Commerce

The sense of duty pursues us ever.
-- Joseph Cook

#Duty #Pursue

There is a certain physiognomy in manners.
-- Joseph Cook

#Manners #Certain #Physiognomy

We only begin to realize the value of our possessions when we commence to do good to others with them. No earthly investment pays so large an interest as charity.
-- Joseph Cook

#Charity #Pay #Realizing

We must judge religious movements, not by the men who make them, but by the men they make.
-- Joseph Cook

#Religious #Men #Judging

A single profane expression betrays a man's low breeding.
-- Joseph Cook

#Men #Expression #Lows

Woman's rights should come by evolution, and not by revolution. I want a little woman's right tried first, and then, if the experience is bad, we can go back on our track; if good, forward.
-- Joseph Cook

#Rights #Track #Want

A monarchy is like a man-of-war--bad shots between wind and water hurt it exceedingly; there is danger of capsizing. But democracy is a raft. You cannot easily overturn it. It is a wet place, but it is a pretty safe one.
-- Joseph Cook

#Hurt #War #Men

Sin is free, or you cannot make sin out of it.
-- Joseph Cook

#Sin

A thinker is a person.
-- Joseph Cook

#Thinker #Persons

What is the average type of a counterfeit church? A hammock, attached on one side to the cross, and, on the other, held and swung to and fro by the forefinger of Mammon; its freight of nominal Christians elegantly moaning meanwhile over the evils of the times, and not at ease unless fanned by eloquence and music, and sprinkled by social adulations into perfumed, unheroic slumber.
-- Joseph Cook

#Christian #Average #Evil

We shall never be at peace with ourselves until we yield with glad supremacy to our higher faculties.
-- Joseph Cook

#Peace #Yield #Supremacy

If society will adopt the rule of nature, and justify no marriage without a supreme affection, the evils of marriage without love will be sufficiently cured. Those who marry without the consent of Nature may securely expect trouble.
-- Joseph Cook

#Evil #May #Affection

Of all my wife's relations I like myself the best.
-- Joseph Cook

#Wife #Relation #My Wife

It is the will to be grateful which constitutes gratitude.
-- Joseph Cook

#Thank You #Gratitude #Grateful

It is not always the highest talent that thrives best. Mediocrity, with tact, will outweigh talent oftentimes.
-- Joseph Cook

#Mediocrity #Talent #Tact

Our secret thoughts are rarely heard except in secret. No man knows what conscience is until he understands what solitude can teach him concerning it.
-- Joseph Cook

#Men #Solitude #Secret

Do you know a book that you are willing to put under your head for a pillow when you lie dying? Very well; that is the book you want to study while you are living. There is but one such book in the world.
-- Joseph Cook

#Lying #Book #Dying

The Unknown is an ocean. What is conscience? The compass of the Unknown.
-- Joseph Cook

#Ocean #Compass #Conscience

The secret of solitude is that there is no solitude.
-- Joseph Cook

#Solitude #Secret

Pillow my head on no guesses when I die.
-- Joseph Cook

#Pillow

Safe popular freedom consists of four things, the diffusion of liberty, of intelligence, of property, and of conscientiousness, and cannot be compounded of any three out of the four.
-- Joseph Cook

#Freedom #Liberty #Three

Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.
-- Joseph Cook

#Compass #Reason #Conscience

Until we have a natural, that is, a conscientious world, it cannot be known by experience what natural law will do for the gratification of a supreme affection; but, if you will give me that world, there will be in it very few not called to marriage, provided society allows proper opportunities for acquaintance between marriageable persons.
-- Joseph Cook

#Marriage #Wedding #Opportunity