Living and lifetime Quotes

There is no wealth but life

While we are postponing, life speeds by

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

God cannot alter the past, though historians can

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence

A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world

Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself

In plain words, chaos was the law of nature, order was the dream of man.”

Morality is a private and costly luxury

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind than as one of the species

No vices are so incurable as those which men are apt to glory in

If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter

There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress

A cloudy day, or a little sunshine, have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most real blessings or misfortunes