Herold Frederic Quotes

Meredith,' interposed Celia, 'makes one of his women, Emilia in England, say that poetry is like talking on tiptoe; like animals in cages, always going to one end and back again. ~ Harold Frederic

Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command. ~ Henri Frederic Amiel

Hindoo wisdom long ago regarded the world as the dream of Brahma. Must we hold with Fichte that it is the individual dream of each individual ego? Every fool would then be a cosmogonic poet producing the firework of the universe under the dome of the infinite. ~ Henri Frederic Amiel

The party of God and the party of Literature have more in common than either will admit their texts may conflict, but their bigotries coincide. Both insist on being the sole custodians of the true word and its only interpreters. ~ Frederic Raphael

The separation of employments, the division of labor, which results from the faculty of exchanging, causes each man, instead of struggling on his own account to overcome all the obstacles that surround him, to combat only one of them; he overcomes that one not for himself but for his fellow men, who in turn render him the same service. ~ Frederic Bastiat

The law perverted! The law - and, in its wake, all the collective forces of the nation - the law, I say, not only diverted from its proper direction, but made to pursue one entirely contrary! The law become the tool of every kind of avarice, instead of being its check! The law guilty of that very iniquity which it was its mission to punish! Truly, this is a serious fact, if it exists, and one to which I feel bound to call the attention of my fellow citizens. ~ Frederic Bastiat

Truth may be stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer. ~ Frederic Raphael

Man does not live upon nominal values, but upon real products, and the more products there are, whatever be their price, the richer he is. ~ Frederic Bastiat

True grace is natural, not artificial, because, however strenuously you strive to gain it, when it is gained it never gives the impression of effort or straining for effect. ~ Frederic Dan Huntington

There is in all of us a strong disposition to regard what is lawful as legitimate, so much so that many falsely derive all justice from law. It is sufficient, then, for the law to order and sanction plunder, that it may appear to many consciences just and sacred. Slavery, protection, and monopoly find defenders, not only in those who profit by them, but in those who suffer by them. If you suggest a doubt as to the morality of these institutions, it is said directly - You are a dangerous experimenter, a utopian, a theorist, a despiser of the laws; you would shake the basis upon which society rests. ~ Frederic Bastiat

But yet he may live and enjoy, by seizing and appropriating the productions of the faculties of his fellow men. This is the origin of plunder. Now, ~ Frederic Bastiat

I do not believe in doing for pleasure things I do not like to do. ~ Don Herold

The nature of law is to maintain justice. This is so much the case that, in the minds of the people, law and justice are one and the same thing. There is in all of us a strong disposition to believe that anything lawful is also legitimate. This belief is so widespread that many persons have erroneously held that things are "just" because law makes them so. Thus, in order to make plunder appear just and sacred to many consciences, it is only necessary for the law to decree and sanction it. Slavery, restrictions, and monopoly find defenders not only among those who profit from them but also among those who suffer from them. ~ Frederic Bastiat

Legal plunder has two roots: One of them, as I have said before, is in human greed; the other is in false philanthropy. ~ Frederic Bastiat

Every living being seeks instinctively to complete itself. ~ Henri Frederic Amiel

When a portion of wealth is transferred from the person who owns it
without his consent and without compensation, and whether by force or by fraud
to anyone who does not own it, then I say that property is violated; that an act of plunder is committed. ~ Frederic Bastiat

Money only appears for the sake of facilitating the arrangements between the parties. ~ Frederic Bastiat

I don't know how it is, but the Germans are amazed at me and I am amazed at them for finding anything to be amazed about. ~ Frederic Chopin

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart. ~ Henri Frederic Amiel

Man never knows what he wants; he aspires to penetrate mysteries and as soon as he has, wants to re-establish them. Ignorance irritates him and knowledge cloys. ~ Henri Frederic Amiel

The following sentiments are illustrative of the philosophy of the Talmud: "Love peace and pursue it at any cost." ~ Frederic Farrar

Be kind and considerate to others, depending somewhat upon who they are. ~ Don Herold

England is a country of pianos, they are everywhere. ~ Frederic Chopin

People resent articulacy, as if articulacy were a form of vice. ~ Frederic Raphael

It is indeed a striking proof of the essential soundness of the tradition that with which all these thousands of copies, tracing their ancestry back to so many different parts of the earth and to conditions of such diverse kinds, the variations of text are so entirely questions of detail, not of essential substance. ~ Frederic G. Kenyon

They want me to give another concert but I have no desire to do so. You cannot imagine what a torture the three days before a public appearance are to me. ~ Frederic Chopin

Indolence is the worst enemy that the church has to encounter. Men sleep around her altar, stretching themselves on beds of ease, or sit idly with folded hands looking lazily out on fields white for the harvest, but where no sickle rings against the wheat. ~ Frederic Dan Huntington

Happiness has no limits, because God has neither bottom nor bounds, and because happiness is nothing but the conquest of God through love. ~ Henri Frederic Amiel

In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties. ~ Henri Frederic Amiel

Let mystery have its place in you; do not be always turning up your whole soil with the plowshare of self-examination, but leave a little fallow corner in your heart ready for any seed the winds may bring, and reserve a nook of shadow for the passing bird; keep a place in your heart for the unexpected guests, an altar for the unknown God. Then if a bird sing among your branches, do not be too eager to tame it. If you are conscious of something new - thought or feeling, wakening in the depths of your being - do not be in a hurry to let in light upon it, to look at it; let the springing germ have the protection of being forgotten, hedge it round with quiet, and do not break in upon its darkness. ~ Henri Frederic Amiel

The growth and development of the soul is more important than power and glory. ~ Henri Frederic Amiel

The plans differ; the planners are all alike ... ~ Frederic Bastiat

Nothing finite is true, is interesting, is worthy to fix my attention. All that is particular is exclusive, and all that is exclusive repels me. ~ Henri Frederic Amiel

It appears to be uncertain whether the journey of Mary with her husband was obligatory or voluntary ... Women were liable to a capitation tax, if this enrolment also involved taxation. But, apart from any legal necessity, it may easily be imagined that at such a moment Mary would desire not to be left alone. The cruel suspicion of which she had been the subject, and which had almost led to the breaking off of her betrothal (Matt. 1: 19) would make her cling all the more to the protection of her husband. ~ Frederic Farrar

Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary line and adding to one's liberty. ~ Henri Frederic Amiel

It is no wonder that the writers of the nineteenth century look upon society as an artificial creation of the legislator's genius. This idea
the fruit of classical education
has taken possession of all the intellectuals and famous writers of our country. To these intellectuals and writers, the relationship between persons and the legislator appears to be the same as the relationship between the clay and the potter. ~ Frederic Bastiat

In the first place, the word universal conceals a gross sophism. ~ Frederic Bastiat

Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison. ~ Henri Frederic Amiel

Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness. ~ Henri Frederic Amiel

When you are on foot, to arrive you must walk. ~ Frederic Gros

In a film, you always try to have your main character be changed by the end. ~ Frederic Tcheng

By virtue of exchange, one man's prosperity is beneficial to all others. ~ Frederic Bastiat

I paint ideas, not things. My intention is less to paint works that are pleasing to the eye than to suggest great thoughts which will speak to the imagination and the heart and will arouse all that is noblest and best in man. ~ George Frederic Watts

One of the strangest phenomena of our time, and one that will probably be a matter of astonishment to our descendants, is the doctrine which is founded upon this triple hypothesis: the radical passiveness of mankind, - the omnipotence of the law, - the infallibility of the legislator: this is the sacred symbol of the party that proclaims itself exclusively democratic. ~ Frederic Bastiat

Don't ever slam a door, you might want to go back. ~ Don Herold

Great restaurants are, of course, nothing but mouth-brothels. There is no point in going to them if one intends to keep one's belt buckled. ~ Frederic Raphael

The chief trouble with jazz is that there is not enough of it; some of it we have to listen to twice. ~ Don Herold

I tell you piano the things I used to tell you ~ Frederic Chopin