Quotes and Sayings

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished.

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn’t know what he is doing.

Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.

Nature never did betray, the heart that loved her.

The child is father of the man.

We meet thee, like a pleasant thought, When such are wanted.

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.

That best portion of a good man’s life; his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love

Faith is a passionate intuition.

Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.

We have within ourselves, enough to fill the present day with joy, and overspread the future years with hope.

We have within ourselves, enough to fill the present day with joy, and overspread the future years with hope.

How blessings brighten as they take their flight.

Life’s cares are comforts; such by heaven design’d He that has none, must make them or be wretched.

In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts bring sad thoughts to the mind.

One great society alone on earth: the noble living and the noble dead.

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