Popular Quotes from Great Minds

Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.

Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately when lawful, they do not excite desire.

As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.

The perfection of art is to conceal art.

Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.

Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.

Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.

When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.

To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.