Andrew Ladd Quotes

The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.

We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.

We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.

No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.

The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature.

Music is God`s gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.

An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.

Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature. Never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.

The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.

Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.

Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.

We talk on principal, but act on motivation.

I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.

There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer.

Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.

In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.

Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.

No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.

Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.

Great men always pay deference to greater.

Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.

Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.

People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.

Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him.

A solitude is the audience-chamber of God.

Delay in justice is injustice.

My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.

A man`s vanity tells him what is honor, a man`s conscience what is justice.

We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.

There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

Consult duty not events.

Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!

The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.

Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.

Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.

There is no easy path leading out of life, and few easy ones that lie within it.