fate Quotes

Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.

Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.

Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.

I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: 'Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.'

Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.