A.T. Baron Quotes
As the excitement of the game increases, prudence is sure to diminish.
Toil to some is happiness, and rest to others. This man can only breathe in crowds, and that man only in solitudes.
Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies.
A friend who stands with you in pressure is more valuable than a hundred ones who stand with you in pleasure.
Our very wretchedness grows dear to us when suffering for one we love.
The poet in prose or verse - the creator - can only stamp his images forcibly on the page in proportion as he has forcibly felt, ardently nursed, and long brooded over them.
Our ideas, like orange-plants, spread out in proportion to the size of the box which imprisons the roots.
Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes.
Poets alone are sure of immortality; they are the truest diviners of nature.
We lose the peace of years when we hunt after the rapture of moments.
Let us fill urns with rose-leaves in May And hive the the trifty sweetness for December!
The learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of millions of vibrations have to penetrate the eye before the eye can distinguish the tints of a violet.
Fine natures are like fine poems; a glance at the first two lines suffices for a guess into the beauty that waits you if you read on.
When one is in a good sound rage, it is astonishing how calm one can be.
We cannot of ourselves estimate the degree of our success in what we strive for.
The object of ambition, unlike that of love, never being wholly possessed, ambition is the more durable passion of the two.
A man's heart must be very frivolous if the possession of fame rewards the labor to attain it. For the worst of reputation is that it is not palpable or present - we do not feel or see or taste it.
Ere yet we yearn for what is out of our reach, we are still in the cradle. When wearied out with our yearnings, desire again falls asleep; we are on the death-bed.
Inconstancy no sin will prove If we consider that we love But the same beauty in another face, Like the same body in another place.
The glory of a nation and an age is always the work of a few great persons, and it disappears with them.
Montesquieu had the style of a genius; Buffon, the genius of style.
Love will sacrifice more to others than friendship, but then it exacts more from them.
How happy is it for us, that the admiration of others should depend so much more on their ignorance than our perfection!
Pleasure is the business of the young, business the pleasure of the old.
Fire and people do in this agree,They both good servants, both ill masters be.
Genius always looks forward, and not only sees what is, but what necessarily will be.
You deny that man is really so prejudiced as I suppose him; talk to him then of some foreign country, ask him what religion he is of.
Penetration seems a kind of inspiration; it gives me an idea of prophecy.
When real nobleness accompanies that imaginary one of birth, the imaginary seems to mix with real, and becomes real too.
Like mothers, taxes are often misunderstood, but seldom forgotten
Most British statesmen have either drunk too much or womanised too much. I never fell into the second category.
Of all the plagues with which the world is curst, Of every ill, a woman is the worst.
Mankind, from Adam, have been women's fools; Women, from Eve, have been the devil's tools: Heaven might have spar'd one torment when we fell; Not left us women, or not threatened hell.
And, perhaps most importantly, regional conflicts will again and again confront us with a cruel choice between costly engagement and costly indifference.
The rapid dissemination of technology and information offers entirely new ways of production, but it can also bring the spectre of more states developing weapons of mass destruction.