benjamin Quotes

“Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.”

“Well done is better than well said.”

“Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.”

“I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man.”

“Change is inevitable in a progressive country. Change is constant.”

“All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.”

“The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.”

“The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.”

“He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.”

“There is no index of character so sure as the voice.”