Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.
“Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.” Benjamin Haydon
“Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.” Benjamin Haydon
“The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.” Benjamin Haydon
“The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.” Benjamin Haydon
“This is an age of intellectual sauces, of essence, of distillation. We have conclusions without deductions, abridgments of history and abridgments of science without leading … Read More
“Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are … Read More
“Mistrusts sometimes come over one’s mind of the justice of God. But let a real misery come again, and to whom do we fly? To … Read More
“Satan is to be punished eternally in the end, but for a while he triumphs.” Benjamin Haydon
“Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them.” Benjamin Haydon
“How difficult it is to get men to believe that any other man can or does act from disinterestedness!” Benjamin Haydon
“Newton’s health, and confusion to mathematics.” Benjamin Haydon
“It is better to make friends than adversaries of a conquered race.” Benjamin Haydon
“Men of genius are often considered superstitious, but the fact is, the fineness of their nerve renders them more alive to the supernatural than ordinary … Read More
“Do your duty, and don’t swerve from it. Do that which your conscience tells you to be right, and leave the consequences to God.” … Read More
“To procrastinate seems inherent in man, for if you do to-day that you may enjoy to-morrow it is but deferring the enjoyment; so that to … Read More
“One of the surest evidences of an elevated taste is the power of enjoying works of impassioned terrorism, in poetry, and painting. The man who … Read More
“It is highly convenient to believe in the infinite mercy of God when you feel the need of mercy, but remember also his infinite justice.” … Read More
“The longer a man lives in this world the more he must be convinced that all domestic quarrels had better never be obtruded on the … Read More
“The explanation of the propensity of the English people to portrait painting is to be found in their relish for a Fact. Let a man … Read More
“There must be more malice than love in the hearts of all wits.” Benjamin Haydon
“Never let your love for your profession overshadow your religious feeling. Depend on it that religion will strengthen, not weaken, your energies, and will not … Read More