The great difficulty is first to win a reputation; the next to keep it while you live; and the next to preserve it after you die, when affection and interest are over, and nothing but sterling excellence can preserve your… — Benjamin Haydon Copy Share Image
Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence. — Benjamin Haydon Copy Share Image
There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil. — Benjamin Haydon Copy Share
It is highly convenient to believe in the infinite mercy of God when you feel the need of mercy, but remember also his infinite… — Benjamin Haydon Copy Share
One of the surest evidences of an elevated taste is the power of enjoying works of impassioned terrorism, in poetry, and painting. The man… — Benjamin Haydon Copy Share
Genius in poverty is never feared, because nature, though liberal in her gifts in one instance, is forgetful in another. — Benjamin Haydon Copy Share
No man, perhaps, is so wicked as to commit evil for its own sake. Evil is generally committed under the hope of some advantage… — Benjamin Haydon Copy Share
Men of genius are often considered superstitious, but the fact is, the fineness of their nerve renders them more alive to the supernatural than… — Benjamin Haydon Copy Share
Men who have reached and passed 45, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they… — Benjamin Haydon Copy Share
If men would only take the chances of doing right because it is right, instead of the immediate certainty of the advantage of doing… — Benjamin Haydon Copy Share
The greatest geniuses have always attributed everything to God, as if conscious of being possessed of a spark of His divinity. — Benjamin Haydon Copy Share
Beware of the beginnings of vice. Do not delude yourself with the belief that it can be argued against in the presence of the… — Benjamin Haydon Copy Share
This is an age of intellectual sauces, of essence, of distillation. We have conclusions without deductions, abridgments of history and abridgments of science without… — Benjamin Haydon Copy Share
We are a compound of both here and hereafter; we shall be made responsible for the actions of both while here. Anything beyond this… — Benjamin Haydon Copy Share
