Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again. "

Related Quotes:

" The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it. "

" Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed. "

" Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. "

" 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. "

" There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn. "

" 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. "

" Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment. "

" I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just. "

" 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. "

" I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world. "

" Language is the dress of thought. "

" Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it. "

" By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time. "

" Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world. "

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

" No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring. "

" Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen. "

" 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. "

" You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford. "

" Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home. "

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

" We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us. "

" He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage. "

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

" Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out. "

" Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. "

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

" All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it. "

" Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome. "

" Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger. "