“The greatest geniuses have always attributed everything to God, as if conscious of being possessed of a spark of His divinity.” IfsGeniusConsciousDivinitySparksPossessed Book:Benjamin Robert Haydon: Correspondence and Table-talk Source: Benjamin Robert Haydon: Correspondence and Table-talk
“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.” IfsMadeRealWould BeActionValuesResponsibilityProveResponsibleHereafterCompoundsReal Value Author:Benjamin Haydon
“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.” IfsMenLife IsChanceAdvantageCertaintyDoing Right Book:Benjamin Robert Haydon: Correspondence and Table-talk Source: Benjamin Robert Haydon: Correspondence and Table-talk
“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.” IfsMenMaySeemsEnjoyViewsEnjoymentVirtuousProcrastinationInherentIdleViciousMorrowProcrastinatingIndustrious Book:Correspondence and Table-talk: With a Memoir Source: Correspondence and Table-talk: With a Memoir