Accounts Quote by Joseph Addison

“Personal size and mental sorrow have certainly no necessary proportions.  A large bulky figure has as good a right to be in deep affliction,…

— Jane Austen

“For as we would wish that a painter who is to draw a beautiful face, in which there is yet some imperfection, should neither…

— Plutarch

It is observed by Cicero, that men of the greatest and most shining parts are most actuated by ambition.

— Joseph Addison

“The human eye is a wonderful device,” I quoted from Poems and Other Prevarications absently. “With a little effort, it can fail to see…

— Richard K. Morgan

“He accepted the deformity which had made life so hard for him; he knew that it had warped his character, but no he saw…

— W. Somerset Maughamset Maugham

The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.

— John Milton

Whatever of goodness emanates from the soul, gathers its soft halo in the eyes; and if the heart be a lurking place of crime,…

— Arthur Frederick Saunders

“Surely, then, mere style, or language, never was, as it never could, naturally, it never could, possibly be praised, by well-informed readers; by them,…

— Percival Stockdale

“Mortals cannot perceive me with the physical eye whilst in my pure form unless it is of my choosing, for it would result in…

— Al Stone

“I have destroyed almost the whole race of frogs, which does not happen in that savage Batrachomyomachia of Homer r. For in the anatomy…

— Marcello Malpighi

“Oh, he did look like a deity – the perfect balance of danger and charm, he was at the same time fascinating and inaccessible,…

— Simona Panova

“He completely lacked any ardent interest that might have occupied his mind. His interior life was impoverished, had undergone a deterioration so severe that…

— Thomas Mann