Benjamin Quotes

After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser.

I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

Never confuse Motion with Action.

My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.

Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.

Treat gain and loss the same.' Don't be Intimidated. Don't make a Big Deal of anything - just accept things as they come to you.

You can only end a negotiation for peace if you begin it.

It's harder to be a success, globally, and be artistic. Harder to have that balance than just to be artistic when nobody understands you.

The right combination is between a free economy and social policy that addresses the needs of society and creates equal opportunity.

The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.

No employment can be managed without arithmetic, no mechanical invention without geometry.

The proud hate pride in others.

Those who would give up liberty for safety deserve neither.

Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.

Games lubricate the body and the mind.

[It was] the poverty caused by the bad influence of the English bankers on the Parliament which has caused in the colonies hatred of the English and . . . the Revolutionary War.

Women carry a beautiful hand with them to the grave, when a beautiful face has long ago vanished.

Nobody is forgotten, when it is convenient to remember him.

There seems to be three ways for a nation to acquire wealth: the first is by war...this is robbery; the second by commerce, which is generally cheating; the third by agriculture, the only honest way.

Eat few suppers, and you'll need few medicines.

There once was a man called Rousseau who wrote a book containing nothing but ideas. The second edition was bound in the skins of those who laughed at the first.

In August, 1900, [Friedrich] Nietzsche was laid to rest Nietzsche, as the apostle of atheism, heralded the darkest century the world has ever known.

I serve God, and my purpose is to please Him, and if God be for you, who can be against you?

A benefactor is a representative of God.

I believe absence is a great element of charm.

The early morning has gold in its mouth.

Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime.

If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

If you want to be loved, love and be loveable.

Both a priori reasoning and experience teach us that as as these funds grow larger the geometrical rate of growth by compound interest ultimately defeats itself.

Forewarn'd, forearm'd.

Here is my Creed. I believe in one God, the Creator of the Universe. That He governs it by His Providence. That He ought to be worshipped.

We have not only multiplied diseases, but we have made them more fatal.

For 99 issues out of 100 we could say that at some price they are cheap enough to buy and at some price they would be so dear that they would be sold.

William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.

Truth and sincerity have a certain distinguishing native lustre about them which cannot be perfectly counterfeited; they are like fire and flame, that cannot be painted.

Most people die at 25 but are buried at 75.

Think What You Do When You Run in Debt: You Give to Another Power over Your Liberty

To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.

The most striking thing about Graham's discussion of how to allocate your assets between stocks and bonds is that he never mentions the word "age".

We may give advice, but we cannot give conduct.

It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance.

We don't point a pistol at our own forehead. That is not the way to conduct negotiations.

Only madmen and fools are pleased with themselves; no wise man is good enough for his own satisfaction.

A kiss from my mother made me a painter.

An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur.

I wondered what that was like, to hold someone’s hand. I bet you could sometimes find all of the mysteries of the universe in someone’s hand.

Doubt is an element of criticism, and the tendency of criticism is necessarily skeptical.

Music does not excite until it is performed.