Benjamin Quotes
When I started singing about my life and what I was going through, I felt more confident. It was my own life, I was being myself, I was telling people what was happening.
No duty, however, binds us to these so-called laws, whose corrupting influence menaces what is noblest in our being.
The great question in life is the suffering we cause, and the most ingenious metaphysics do not justify the man who has broken the heart that loved him.
Believing, desiring, deciding, and choosing correctly are the simple actions that define an increase in happiness and an increase in the inner assurance that transcends this life.
When men are young, they want experience and when they have gained experience, they want energy.
Eloquence is the child of knowledge. When a mind is full, like a wholesome river, it is also clear.
I am neither a Whig nor Tory. My politics are described in one word and that word is England.
There are few faces that can afford to smile: a smile is sometimes bewitching, in general vapid, often a contortion.
There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.
The world is governed by personalities very different to what people that cannot see further than their eyes, believe
The art of conversation is to be prompt without being stubborn, to refute without argument, and to clothe great matters in a motley garb.
O Music! Miraculous art! A blast of thy trumpet and millions rush forward to die; a peal of thy organ and uncounted nations sink down to pray.
The affections are the children of ignorance; when the horizon of our experience expands, and models multiply, love and admiration imperceptibly vanish.
You can not pluck roses without fear of thorns, Nor enjoy a fair wife without danger of horns.
One of the greatest tragedies of life is the murder of a beautiful theory by a gang of brutal facts.
None but the well-bred man knows how to confess a fault, or acknowledge himself in an error.
When you speak to a man, look on his eyes; when he speaks to you, look on his mouth.
Don't you know, that all wives are in the right? It may be you don't, for you are yet a young husband.
In America, they do not inquire of a stranger, "What is he?" but, "What can he do?"
I have thought that wild flowers might be the alphabet of angels, — whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious truths, which it is not given our fallen nature to understand.
Write to Please Yourself. When You write to Please Others You end up Pleasing No one.
