Nathan Craoll

There is only one thing about which I shall have no regrets when my life ends. I have savored to the full all the small, daily joys. The bright sunshine on the breakfast table; the smell of the air at dusk; the sound of the clock ticking; the light rains that start gently after midnight; the hour when the family come home; Sunday-evening tea before the fire! I have never missed one moment of beauty, not even taken it for granted. Spring, summer, autumn, or winter. I wish I had failed as little in other ways.

He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

There is a sort of subjection which is the peculiar heritage of largeness and of love; and strength is often only another name for willing bondage to irremediable weakness.

I constantly ask myself if what I’m doing is for me or somebody else. It’s tripping me out!

The public do not know enough to be experts, but know enough to decide between them.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

Sir Joshua would have been glad to take her portrait; and he would have had an easier task than the historian at least in this, that he would not have had to represent the truth of change –only to give stability to one beautiful moment.

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.

We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.

We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.