black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

The greatest geniuses have always attributed everything to God, as if conscious of being possessed of a spark of His divinity.

Benjamin Haydon

There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.
BENJAMIN HAYDON

Evil Human Nature Propensity
No man, perhaps, is so wicked as to commit evil for its own sake. Evil is generally committed under the hope of some advantage the pursuit of virtue seldom obtains. Yet the most successful result of the most virtuous heroism is never without its alloy.
BENJAMIN HAYDON

Evil Men Successful
Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them.
BENJAMIN HAYDON

Devotional Persons True Religion
Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.
BENJAMIN HAYDON

Age Reputation Suffering
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.
BENJAMIN HAYDON

Conscience Duty Swerve
All government is an evil, but, of the two form’s of that evil, democracy or monarchy, the sounder is monarchy; the more able to do its will, democracy.
BENJAMIN HAYDON

Evil Government Monarchy Two
If men would only take the chances of doing right because it is right, instead of the immediate certainty of the advantage of doing wrong, how much happier would their lives be.
BENJAMIN HAYDON

Certainty Chance Chances Immediate Life Men
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 men.
BENJAMIN HAYDON

Men Nerves Ordinary
Danger is the very basis of superstition. It produces a searching after help supernaturally when human means are no longer supposed to be available.
BENJAMIN HAYDON

Helping Mean Superstition
The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.
BENJAMIN HAYDON

Improvement Inspirational Life Self
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 done by ordinary materials.
BENJAMIN HAYDON

Astonishing Done Genius Ordinary
Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.
BENJAMIN HAYDON

Mind Prejudice Serious
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.
BENJAMIN HAYDON

Believe God Justice Mercy
How difficult it is to get men to believe that any other man can or does act from disinterestedness!
BENJAMIN HAYDON

Believe Disinterestedness Men
The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.
BENJAMIN HAYDON

Architecture Artist England
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 be idle or industrious, vicious or virtuous, is but with a view of procrastinating the one or the other.
BENJAMIN HAYDON

Men Procrastination Views

The greatest geniuses have always attributed everything to God, as if conscious of being possessed of a spark of His divinity.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

The greatest geniuses have always attributed everything to God, as if conscious of being possessed of a spark of His divinity.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Benjamin Haydon Quotes