The intimacy which is contracted in infancy, and friendship which is formed in misfortune, are, of all others, the most lasting and unalterable.
After all, the rich get richer and the poor get children. Which is okay so long as lots of them starve in infancy.
For imitation is natural to man from his infancy. Man differs from other animals particularly in this, that he is imitative, and acquires his rudiments of knowledge in this way; besides, the delight in it is universal.
A man is arrogant in proportion to his ignorance. Man's natural tendency is to egotism. Man, in his infancy of knowledge, thinks that all creation was formed for him.
Only passions, and great passions, can raise the soul to great things. Without them there is no sublimity, either in morals or in creativity. Art returns to infancy, and virtue becomes small- minded.
If they [enlightened men] take any interest in examining, in the infancy of our species, the almost obliterated traces of so many nations that have become extinct, they will doubtless take a similar interest in collecting, amidst the darkness which covers the infancy of the globe, the traces of those revolutions which took place anterior to the existence of all nations.
Our days, our deeds, all we achieve or are, Lay folded in our infancy; the things Of good or ill we choose while yet unborn.
Heaven lies around us in our infancy.
Heaven lies about us in our infancy.
in came. . . a baby, eloquent as infancy usually is, and like most youthful orators, more easily heard than understood.
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual.
The law of grab is the primal law of infancy.
There's a part in every person that has a fake self. We've had this since infancy due to our parents and our upbringing.
Will, therefore, is the unbroken determination to exercise free choice as well as self-restraint, in spite of the unavoidable experience of shame and doubt in infancy.
From infancy onward, children are the most fantastic learners in the world.
The prehistorical and primitive period represents the true infancy of the mind.
It is hard to look at the tumor and not come away with the feeling that one has encountered a powerful monster in its infancy
Women are from their very infancy debarred those Advantages with the want of which they are afterwards reproached.
The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other.
The critic does his utmost to blight genius in his infancy.