Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest. "

Related Quotes:

" A man will turn over half a library to make one book. "

" 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. "

" It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached. "

" Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement. "

" The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. "

" Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable. "

" To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed. "

" A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good. "

" When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped. "

" The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape. "

" The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken. "

" Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms. "

" No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money. "

" If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance. "

" To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution. "

" Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find? "

" From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life. "

" No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction. "

" Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy. "

" The chief glory of every people arises from its authors. "

" There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten. "

" There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain. "

" Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. "

" The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning. "

" No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company. "

" Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance. "

" Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. "

" When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford. "

" The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities. "

" Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good. "