Living and lifetime Quotes

What is now proved was once only imagined.

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

Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.

Man's desires are limited by his perceptions; none can desire what he has not perceived.

Oh, how precious is time, and how it pains me to see it slide away, while I do so little to any good purpose

But to us, probability is the very guide of life

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

There are no shortcuts in evolution

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

Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders

Men get opinions as boys learn to spell, by reiteration chiefly

He lives most life whoever breathes most air

Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy

Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted

But what is past my help is past my care

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

The longest day must have its close -the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day

Better to be without logic than without feeling

Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation