On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, in every rill a sweet instruction flows.
— Edward Young
Famous Quotes
In records that defy the tooth of time.
Ah! what is human life?Yet soon the hour is up—and we are gone.
Great let me call him, for he conquered me.
Life is the desert, life the solitude;Death joins us to the great majority.
Souls made of fire, and children of the sun,With whom revenge is virtue.
The blood will follow where the knife is driven,The flesh will quiver where the pincers tear.
In youth, what disappointments of our own making: in age, what disappointments from the nature of things.
The man that makes a character makes foes.