To be honest as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.William ShakespeareWrite now →Details & source
Ah, when shall all men's good Be each man's rule, and universal peace Lie like a shaft of light across the land, And …Alfred TennysonWrite now →Details & source
There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.Samuel JohnsonWrite now →Details & source
The drying up a single tear has more Of honest fame than shedding seas of gore.Lord ByronWrite now →Details & source
Minds that have nothing to confer Find little to perceive.William WordsworthWrite now →Details & source
Absence of occupation is not rest, A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd.William CowperWrite now →Details & source
With malice towards none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.Abraham LincolnWrite now →Details & source
How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use,— As tho' to breathe were life!Alfred TennysonWrite now →Details & source
One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.William WordsworthWrite now →Details & source
The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall.Francis BaconWrite now →Details & source
We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.Ralph Waldo EmersonWrite now →Details & source
Among unequals what society Can sort, what harmony, or true delight?John MiltonWrite now →Details & source
For freedom's battle, once begun, Bequeath'd by bleeding sire to son, Though baffled oft, is ever won.Lord ByronWrite now →Details & source
God is the perfect poet, Who in his person acts his own creations.Robert BrowningWrite now →Details & source
O God! that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap!Thomas HoodWrite now →Details & source
They stood aloof, the scars remaining,— Like cliffs which had been rent asunder: A dreary sea now flows between.Samuel Taylor ColeridgeWrite now →Details & source
The superior man is affable, but not adulatory; the mean man is adulatory, but not affable.ConfuciusWrite now →Details & source
Beneath the rule of men entirely great, The pen is mightier than the sword.Edward Bulwer-LyttonWrite now →Details & source