Category: Quote of the Day

The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder. Discuss

To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text. Discuss

Enthusiasm, n.: A distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience. Discuss

There, then, he sat, the sign and symbol of a man without faith, hopelessly holding up hope in the midst of despair. Discuss

So the days pass, and I ask myself sometimes whether one is not hypnotized, as a child by a silver globe, by life, and whether this is living. Discuss

When we look back, the only things we cherish are those which in some way met our original want; the desire which formed in us in early youth, undirected, and of its own accord. Discuss

I have always a sacred veneration for any one I observe to be a little out of repair in his person, as supposing him either a poet or a philosopher; because the richest minerals are ever found under the most ragged and withered surface of the earth. Discuss

How reckless is Nature in the distribution of her gifts! Discuss

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. Discuss

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong. Discuss