Favorite Quotes

"Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought." - Oliphant

 

"Great minds have purposes; others have wishes." - Irving

 

"Curiosity is the lust of the mind." - Hobbes

 

"Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our manner." - Blair

 

"The ocean is a mighty harmonist." - Wordsworth

 

"Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire." - Nicolson

 

"For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation." - Baudelaire

 

"Rules and models destroy genius and art." - Hazlitt

 

"Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart." - Clay

 

"The poet is on the side of undeceiving the world." - Heaney

 

"We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains." - Sullivan

 

"From its brilliancy everything is illuminated." - Nanak

 

"Learning never exhausts the mind." - da Vinci

 

"Action, so to speak, is the genius of nature." - Blair

 

"They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here." - Vaughan

 

"Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption." - Bazin

 

"I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself." - Aretino

 

"Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity by reading all the novels you can." - Hughes

 

"A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow." - C. Brontë

 

"Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation." - Fielding