“Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.”

― George Washington, State of the Union Address

topic:happiness knowledge

QuoteImageAI

To create a beautiful custom image, click the button below to use it online for free

Free To Use Download Image

“Swann had learned by experience that the good intentions of a third party are powerless to control a woman who is annoyed to find herself pursued even into a ball-room by a man whom she does not love. Too often, the kind friend comes down again...”

― Marcel Proust, Swann's Way

“Identity isn’t a prison you can never escape, but the way to redeem your past is not to run from it, but to try to understand it, and use it as a foundation to grow.”

― JAY-Z, Decoded

“The classes were valuable, but the real education was the game.”

― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

“Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.”

― Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

“Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.”

― Francis Bacon, The Essays of Francis Bacon

“The theologian considers sin chiefly as an offense against God; and the moral philosopher, as something contrary to reason.”

― Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

“Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity, was now no longer a minor feature in Mrs Angel Clare; and it sustained her.”

― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles

“As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Welcome, O life, I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.”

― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“But I don't think I ought to leave my friends like this, after all we have gone through together.”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

Recommended Topics

joy danger feelings law faith slavery thinking pride choice doubt judgement sorrow fate history independence care responsibility cowardice will waiting

© Copyright 2025 QuoteImageAI