reflection Quotes

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.

Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them.

Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?

I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.

Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.

Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.

Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.