Frederic William Farrar quotes

If ever I want to amuse myself with an idiot, I have not far to look for one. I laugh at myself. (Frederic William Farrar)
No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted words "failure" and "success." and measure them by the eternal, not by the earthly standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be preeminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross - was that a failure? Nay, my brethren. it was the death of Him who lived that we might follow His footsteps, it was the life, it was the death of the Son of God. View quote
Frederic William Farrar
Man's liberty ends, and it ought to end, when that liberty becomes the curse of its neighbors. View quote
Frederic William Farrar
The decision of such judges as Claudius and his Senate is worth very little in the question of a man's innocence or guilt; but the sentence was that Seneca should be banished to the island of Corsica. View quote
Frederic William Farrar
There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is, not to be true to the best one knows. View quote
Frederic William Farrar
Whether the prayer of Seneca was granted we do not know; but, as we do not again hear of Marcus, it is probable that he died before his father, and that the line of Seneca, like that of so many great men, became extinct in the second generation. View quote
Frederic William Farrar
Seneca brings vividly before us a picture of the various scholars assembled in a school of the philosophers. View quote
Frederic William Farrar
There was living in the palace at this time a brother of the great Germanicus, and consequently an uncle of the late emperor, whose name was Claudius Caesar. View quote
Frederic William Farrar
No man can pass into eternity, for he is already in it. View quote
Frederic William Farrar
But in the life of every man there are influences of a far more real and penetrating character than those which come through the medium of schools or teachers. View quote
Frederic William Farrar
For although Claudius had been accused of gambling and drunkenness, not only were no worse sins laid to his charge, but he had successfully established some claim to being considered a learned man. (Frederic William Farrar)