Men should be judged, not by their tint of skin,
the Gods they serve, the Vintage they drink,
nor by the way they fight, or love, or sin,
But by the quality of the thought they think.
—Adela Florence Nicolson
For this is wisdom: to live, to take what fate, or the Gods, may give.
—Adela Florence Nicolson
Topics: Wisdom, Acceptance
Now that fate has brought me what so long I so desired, it is too late, I am too tired.
—Adela Florence Nicolson
Topics: Desires
Wondering Whom to Read Next?
- Virginia Woolf English Novelist
- Edward Lear English Humorist, Illustrator
- Thomas Lovell Beddoes English Poet
- Margaret Laurence Canadian Novelist
- Philip James Bailey English Poet
- Thomas Hardy English Novelist, Poet
- Hartley Coleridge British Poet
- John Keats English Poet
- Matthew Arnold English Poet, Critic
- Arthur Henry Hallam English Essayist, Poet
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