black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.

Benjamin Haydon

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

Age Reputation Suffering
Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them.
BENJAMIN HAYDON

Devotional Persons True Religion
Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.
BENJAMIN HAYDON

Everything Happiness Requisite Temperance
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 greatest geniuses have always attributed everything to God, as if conscious of being possessed of a spark of His divinity.
BENJAMIN HAYDON

Divinity Genius Sparks
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
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
Nothing is difficult; it is only we who are indolent.
BENJAMIN HAYDON

Difficult Indolence Indolent
Newton’s health, and confusion to mathematics.
BENJAMIN HAYDON

Confusion Mathematics Newton
We are a compound of both here and hereafter; we shall be made responsible for the actions of both while here. Anything beyond this is beyond our power to prove, and would be of no real value if we could.
BENJAMIN HAYDON

Both Real Responsibility Responsible
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
Invention is totally independent of the will.
BENJAMIN HAYDON

Independent Invention Totally
Satan is to be punished eternally in the end, but for a while he triumphs.
BENJAMIN HAYDON

Devil Satan Triumph
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
Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.
BENJAMIN HAYDON

Mind Prejudice Serious
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

The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Benjamin Haydon Quotes