Quotes by Essayist

"Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead."

"Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead."

Robert Lynd, Irish Essayist

Genius, Being, Man

46

"There is nothing that makes us feel so good as the idea that someone else is an evil-doer."

"There is nothing that makes us feel so good as the idea that someone else is an evil-doer."

Robert Lynd, Irish Essayist

Idea, Evil, Nothing

34

"Most remarks that are worth making are commonplace remarks. The things that makes them worth saying is that we really mean them."

"Most remarks that are worth making are commonplace remarks. The things that makes them worth saying is that we really mean them."

Robert Lynd, Irish Essayist

Saying, Worth

14

"It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering."

"It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering."

Robert Lynd, Irish Essayist

Suffering,

13

"In the vanity of self-consciousness one feels at a long remove above the ordinary love and trustfulness of a simple and pure heart."

"In the vanity of self-consciousness one feels at a long remove above the ordinary love and trustfulness of a simple and pure heart."

Donald G. Mitchell, American Essayist

Love, Heart, Self, Vanity

12

"Married or unmarried, young or old, poet or worker, you are still a dreamer, and will one time know, and feel, that your life is but a dream."

"Married or unmarried, young or old, poet or worker, you are still a dreamer, and will one time know, and feel, that your life is but a dream."

Donald G. Mitchell, American Essayist

Life, Time, Dream, Old

12

"Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long."

"Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long."

Robert Lynd, Irish Essayist

Friendship, Advice, Will

11

"A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose."

"A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose."

Samuel McChord Crothers, American Essayist

Prose, Writer, Writing

11

"I love better to count time from spring to spring; it seems to me far more cheerful to reckon the year by blossoms than by blight."

"I love better to count time from spring to spring; it seems to me far more cheerful to reckon the year by blossoms than by blight."

Donald G. Mitchell, American Essayist

Love, Time, Spring

10

"The way of a man's heart will be foreshadowed by what goodness lies in him - coming from above, and from around; but a way foreshadowed is not a way made."

"The way of a man's heart will be foreshadowed by what goodness lies in him - coming from above, and from around; but a way foreshadowed is not a way made."

Donald G. Mitchell, American Essayist

Heart, Goodness, Lies, Man

10

"Youth is in a grand flush, like the hot days of ending summer; and pleasant dreams thrall your spirit, like the smoky atmosphere that bathes the landscape of an August day."

"Youth is in a grand flush, like the hot days of ending summer; and pleasant dreams thrall your spirit, like the smoky atmosphere that bathes the landscape of an August day."

Donald G. Mitchell, American Essayist

Dream, Dreams, Day, Ending, Spirit

10

"I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear."

"I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear."

Robert Lynd, Irish Essayist

Difficulty, Difficulties, Quiet

10

"The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them."

"The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them."

Samuel McChord Crothers, American Essayist

Fact, Facts, Trouble

10

"Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with."

"Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with."

Robert Lynd, Irish Essayist

Power, Knowledge, Facts, Man

10

"I care not how worldly you may be: there are times when all distinctions seem like dust, and when at the graves of the great you dream of a coming country, where your proudest hopes shall be dimmed forever."

"I care not how worldly you may be: there are times when all distinctions seem like dust, and when at the graves of the great you dream of a coming country, where your proudest hopes shall be dimmed forever."

Donald G. Mitchell, American Essayist

Dream, Care, Country, May

9

"Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left."

"Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left."

Robert Lynd, Irish Essayist

History, Poetry, Drama, Fiction

9

"The future is wider than vision, and has no end."

"The future is wider than vision, and has no end."

Donald G. Mitchell, American Essayist

Vision, End, Future

9

"I thank Heaven every summer's day of my life, that my lot was humbly cast within the hearing of romping brooks, and beneath the shadow of oaks."

"I thank Heaven every summer's day of my life, that my lot was humbly cast within the hearing of romping brooks, and beneath the shadow of oaks."

Donald G. Mitchell, American Essayist

Life, Brooks, Day, Hearing

9

"One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge."

"One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge."

Robert Lynd, Irish Essayist

Knowledge, Ignorance, Man

8

"The sparrow that is twittering on the edge of my balcony is calling up to me this moment a world of memories that reach over half my lifetime, and a world of hope that stretches farther than any flight of sparrows."

"The sparrow that is twittering on the edge of my balcony is calling up to me this moment a world of memories that reach over half my lifetime, and a world of hope that stretches farther than any flight of sparrows."

Donald G. Mitchell, American Essayist

Hope, Memories, Sparrows, World

8

"No man's brain is so dull, and no man's eye so blind, that they cannot catch food for dreams."

"No man's brain is so dull, and no man's eye so blind, that they cannot catch food for dreams."

Donald G. Mitchell, American Essayist

Dream, Dreams, Food, Blind, Eye

8

"But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties."

"But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties."

Donald G. Mitchell, American Essayist

Wealth, Security

8

"Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways."

"Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways."

Samuel McChord Crothers, American Essayist

Being, May, Perfection, Result

8

"There is no genius in life like the genius of energy and industry."

"There is no genius in life like the genius of energy and industry."

Donald G. Mitchell, American Essayist

Life, Genius, Energy

8

"Determine to become one of the best. Sufficient money will almost automatically follow if you get to be one of the "best" in your chosen field, whatever it is."

"Determine to become one of the best. Sufficient money will almost automatically follow if you get to be one of the "best" in your chosen field, whatever it is."

Donald G. Mitchell, American Essayist

Money, Will

7

"Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen."

"Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen."

Robert Lynd, Irish Essayist

Birthday, Time, Sun, World

7

"You grow up however, unfortunately, as the college years fly by, into a very exaggerated sense of your own capacities."

"You grow up however, unfortunately, as the college years fly by, into a very exaggerated sense of your own capacities."

Donald G. Mitchell, American Essayist

College, Sense, Years

7

"There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas; there are other people who want to strangle you simply because it is Christmas."

"There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas; there are other people who want to strangle you simply because it is Christmas."

Robert Lynd, Irish Essayist

People, Christmas, Want

7

"Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve."

"Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve."

Robert Lynd, Irish Essayist

People, Trying