Living and lifetime Quotes

The man, most man, works best for men: and, if most man indeed, he gets his manhood plainest from his soul

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art

The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind

Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived?

Heredity is nothing but stored environment

The right to be alone, the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by civilized man

He lives most life whoever breathes most air

Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy

So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women

Better to be without logic than without feeling

Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years

Fortune is proverbially called changeful, yet her caprice often takes the form of repeating again and again a similar stroke of luck in the same quarter

You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.

One faces the future with one's past

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends

If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked

So free we seem, so fettered fast we are

Where the heart lies, let the brain lie also

Let age approve of youth, and death complete the same