Pastoral Resources

My trophy value exceeded my military usefulness.

In the early West, law and politics were parallel roads to usefulness as well as distinction.

A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.

The vulgar crowd values friends according to their usefulness.

Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.

Education is more than Pisa. Particularly musical education. We also need education and training for more than reasons of usefulness and marketability.

A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work.

Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.

A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness.

In such an environment, I was able to study things that could be of immediate usefulness to the world. That learning experience undoubtedly served me well when I eventually entered the work force.

If all human lives depended upon their usefulness - as might be judged by certain standards - there would be a sudden and terrific mortality in the world.

Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.