Riches, rightly used, breed delight. [ Plautus ]

Rightly to be great
Is not to stir without great argument,
But greatly to find quarrel in a straw
When honour's at the stake. [ William Shakespeare, Hamlet ]

Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood,
Our greatest evil, or our greatest good. [ Pope ]

It is more difficult to praise rightly than to blame. [ Proverb ]

He shall be a god to me who can rightly divide and define. [ Quoted by Emerson ]

Rightly to be great is not to stir without great argument. [ William Shakespeare ]

Philosophy, if rightly defined, is naught but the love of wisdom. [ Cicero ]

A good principle not rightly understood may prove as hurtful as a bad. [ Milton ]

It is not affliction itself, but affliction rightly borne, that does us good. [ Aughey ]

No man who is wretched in his own heart and feeble in his own work can rightly help others. [ John Ruskin ]

Nature cannot but always act rightly, quite unconcerned as to what may be the consequences. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

The Christian religion, rightly understood, is the deepest and choicest price of philosophy. [ Sir Thomas Moore ]

Heaven hath many tongues to talk of it, more eyes to behold it, but few hearts that rightly affect it. [ Bishop Hall ]

Every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly until he knows that every day is Doomsday. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

To judge human character rightly, a man may sometimes have very small experience, provided he has a very large heart. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

Alphabets, if rightly understood, can be made to tell their own history, as well as the history of those who employed them. [ Prof. Sayce ]

He that defers his charity until he is dead is, if a man weighs it rightly, rather liberal of another man's goods than his own. [ Bacon ]

To write well is at once to think well, to feel rightly, and to render properly; it is to have, at the same time, mind, soul, taste. [ Buffon ]

No character was ever rightly understood until it had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance only, but of sympathy. [ Carlyle ]

Those with whom we can apparently become well acquainted in a few moments are generally the most difficult to rightly know and to understand. [ Hawthorne ]

There is not less wit, nor less invention, in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought. [ Pierre Boyle ]

Rightly, poetry is organic. We cannot know things by words and writing, but only by taking a central position in the universe and living in its forms. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

There is nothing of evil in life for him who rightly comprehends that death is no evil; to know how to die delivers us from all subjection and constraint. [ Montaigne ]

The power of painter or poet to describe rightly what he calls an ideal thing depends upon its being to him not an ideal, but a real thing. No man ever did or ever will work well but either from actual sight or sight of faith. [ Ruskin ]

One of the illusions is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday. [ Emerson ]

Greatness can only be rightly estimated when minuteness is justly reverenced. Greatness is the aggregation of minuteness; nor can its sublimity be felt truthfully by any mind unaccustomed to the affectionate watching of what is least. [ John Ruskin ]

That which we foolishly call vastness is, rightly considered, not more wonderful, not more impressive, than that which we insolently call littleness; and the infinity of God is not mysterious, it is only unfathomable, not concealed, but incomprehensible: it is a clear infinity, the darkness of the pure, unsearchable sea. [ Ruskin ]

Might I give counsel to any young hearer, I would say to him, try to frequent the company of your betters. In books and life is the most wholesome society; learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admire, - they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly. [ Thackeray ]

Courage, by keeping the senses quiet, and the understanding clear, puts us in a condition to receive true intelligence, to make just computations upon danger, and pronounce rightly upon that which threatens us. Innocence of life, consciousness of worth, and great expectations, are the best foundations of courage. These ingredients make a richer cordial than youth can prepare. They warm the heart at eighty, and seldom fail in operation. [ Collier ]

Have you ever rightly considered what the mere ability to read means? That it is the key which admits us to the whole world of thought and fancy and imagination? to the company of saint and sage, of the wisest and the wittiest at their wisest and wittiest moment? That it enables us to see with the keenest eyes, hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time? More than that, it annihilates time and space for us. [ Lowell ]