Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors. But then that is only as they are oracles of wisdom unless they teach virtue they are more worthy of a halter than of the laurel.

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

Truth is always in harmony with herself and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.

The chief internal enemies of any state are those public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people.

I was no chief and never had been but because I had been more deeply wronged than others this honor was conferred upon me and I resolved to prove worthy of the trust.

The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way you can make a man trustworthy is to trust him and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him.

To get away from one's working environment is in a sense to get away from one's self and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life no matter what may be one's aim.

First I shall name the eagle of which there are three species: the great grey eagle is the largest of great strength and high flight he chiefly preys on fawns and other young quadrupeds.

My chief gifts are - naturally good at all sports with a raw talent for pretty much everything which if nurtured could develop into improper talent.

The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.

Life and human society are the chief concern of Confucianism and through it the chief concern of the Chinese people.

Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.

To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief.

The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism.

Science in the modern world has many uses its chief use however is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.

I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.

Hear me my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands I will fight no more forever.

The irony of the Supreme Court hearing on these cases last week and of the outright hostility that the Court has displayed against religion in recent years is that above the head of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is a concrete display of the Ten Commandments.

As social media is less about technology and more about relationship building we are starting to see more women have a heavy influence if not dominant role in the social media space. It's no wonder that Facebook is being run in part by chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg.

The chief function of the city is to convert power into form energy into culture dead matter into the living symbols of art biological reproduction into social creativity.