Father Quote by Samuel Johnson

“The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.…

— Abraham Lincoln

“Though he was inquiring into himself as closely as he could, he never even told himself that he had been dishonest. Fraud and dishonesty…

— Anthony Trollope

“There it was: the tactless severity of vital male youth, not a single doubt about his coherence, blind with self-confidence and the virtue of…

— Philip Roth

When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to [profess] things he does not believe, he has…

— Thomas Paine

“Fully aware that life is too short for the choice to be anything but irreparable, he had been distressed to discover that he felt…

— Milan Kundera

“He did not know how wide a country, arid and precipitous, must be crossed before the traveller through life comes to an acceptance of…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“For a terrible time of life a teen-ager deceives himself; he believes he can trick the world. He believes he is invulnerable. An adolescent…

— John Irving

“It is a strange fact, but incontestable, that the philanthropist, who ardent in his desire to do good, who patient, reasonable and gentle, yet…

— Mary Shelley

“When man finds in himself a certain defect, of which he can by no means rid himself, there remains but to accept the so-called…

— Lev Shestov

“When it shall be desired to enlighten man, let him always have truth laid before him. Instead of kindling his imagination by the idea…

— Baron d'Holbach

“... the typical worker who through the whole of his life...pursues the idea of a certain artificial and elegant repose which he may never…

— Adam Smith

“Too high for common selfishness, he could At times resign his own for others’ good, But not in pity, not because he ought, But…

— Lord Byron