Quotes about Influence

Respect! I believe young people are quick enough to observe and imitate; and why or how should they respect whom no one else respects, and everybody slights?

It's in vain, Trot, to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.

Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day. Chapter Ten The felicitous idea occurred to me a morning or two later when I woke, that the best step I could take towards making myself uncommon was to get out of Biddy everything she knew.

lately come to the English Crown and People, from a congress of British subjects in America: which, strange to relate, have proved more important to the human race than any communications

great men are urged on to the abuse of power (when they need urging, which is not often), by their flatterers and dependents,

I believe the spreading of Catholicism to be the most horrible means of political and social degradation left in the world.

Power, unless it be the power of intellect or virtue, has ever the greatest attraction for the lowest natures.

he felt the chilling influence of its death-cold eyes

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.

But I think it is hardly an argument against a man's general strength of character, that he should be apt to be mastered by love. A fine constitution doesn't insure one against small-pox or any other of those inevitable diseases. A man may be very firm in other matters, and yet be under a sort of witchery from a woman.

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs for ever and ever.

The devil's aversion to holy water is a light matter compared with a despot's dread of a newspaper that laughs.