Lecrae

The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman – repose in energy.

I believe that every person is born with talent.

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy with physic, secure without a guard, and to obtain from the bounty of nature what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of art.

I know that we will be the sufferers if we let great wrongs occur without exerting ourselves to correct them.

I hate women because they always know where things are.

A Man in Business must put up many Affronts, if he loves his own Quiet.

The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and gladly entertained by men around him.

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune, for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works and of greatest merit for the public have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men, which both in affection and means have married and endowed the public. He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question, when a man should marryA young man not yet, an elder man not at all.