Quotes by Joseph Farrell

“Take it for granted that the greater your achievement the more genuine will be the surprise of your friends and neighbors”

“When a man thinks he is reading the character of another, he is often unconsciously betraying his own; and this is especially the case with those persons whose knowledge of the world is of such sort that it results in extreme distrust of men”

“If we only knew the real value of a day”

“As experience widens, one begins to see how much upon a level all human things are.”

“If you go in for argument, take care of your temper. Your logic, if you have any, will take care of itself.”

“Literature and Society in the First Modern Period, 321 B.C. - A.D. 235,”

Most people like praise . . . When it is really deserved most people expand under it into richer and better selves.

The man who most vividly realizes a difficulty is the man most likely to overcome it.

Enjoy your happiness while you have it and while you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.

If we only knew the real value of a day.

There is an illusion that has much to do with ... most of our unhappiness. ... We expect too much.