Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" The two offices of memory are collection and distribution. "

Related Quotes:

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

" I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance. "

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

" By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence. "

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

" What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more. "

" I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him. "

" What is easy is seldom excellent. "

" A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain. "

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

" When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation. "

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

" It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see. "

" The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book. "

" Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking. "

" So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something. "

" Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives. "

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

" Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost. "

" Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments. "

" Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment. "

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

" A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself. "

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

" A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek. "

" Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure. "

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