My disposition as a human being is kind of a go-along-to-get-along person. I tend to trust authority.

You must in all Airs follow the strength spirit and disposition of the horse and do nothing against nature for art is but to set nature in order and nothing else.

But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.

Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.

As a person who is not confrontational by disposition I tend to see that the quality of being confrontational is a positive attribute.

For peace is not mere absence of war but is a virtue that springs from a state of mind a disposition for benevolence confidence justice.

Peace is not an absence of war it is a virtue a state of mind a disposition for benevolence confidence justice.

Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.

By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.

A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils.

The higher the general average of intelligence all things else being equal the less the disposition to be meddlesome critical and overbearing.

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.

If one has a good disposition what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame what is the value of other ornamentation?

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.

A system of education which would not gratify this disposition in any party is requisite in order to obviate the difficulty and the reader will find a something said to that purpose in perusing this tract.

At any rate girls are differently situated. Having no need of deep scientific knowledge their education is confined more to the ordinary things of the world the study of the fine arts and of the manners and dispositions of people.

My father was so good-natured and had such a happy disposition. I've always confused him with Jimmy Stewart. So think Jimmy Stewart. That's my dad.

It is clearly better that property should be private but the use of it common and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.

He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.