All Quotes

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much. ”

Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life. ”

Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, although they come and go by day, are like the smith's bellows: they take breath but are not alive. ”

Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity. ”

To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living. ”

If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago. ”

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts. ”

Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress. ”

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food. ”

Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write; who, however, wrote much and well, but too often by rote. ”