Frederic William Farrar Quotes
"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."
- Frederic William Farrar
(Related: Life, Character, Man, Schools, Teachers)
"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
(Related: Being, Gambling, Man)
"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
(Related: Want)
"Man's liberty ends, and it ought to end, when that liberty becomes the curse of its neighbors."
- Frederic William Farrar
(Related: End, Liberty, Man, Neighbors)
"No man can pass into eternity, for he is already in it."
- Frederic William Farrar
(Related: Eternity, Man)
"Seneca brings vividly before us a picture of the various scholars assembled in a school of the philosophers."
- Frederic William Farrar
(Related: School)
"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."
- Frederic William Farrar
(Related: Decision, Guilt, Innocence, Judges, Man, Question, Senate, Worth)
"There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is, not to be true to the best one knows."
- Frederic William Farrar
(Related: Life, Failure)
"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."
- Frederic William Farrar
(Related: Time, Brother, Living, Name)