Comforts

Famous quotes containing the word comforts:

    Why should you renounce your right to traverse the star-lit deserts of truth, of the premature comforts of an acre, house, and barn? Truth also has its roof, and bed, and board.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    I am not able to instruct you. I can only tell that I have chosen wrong. I have passed my time in study without experience; in the attainment of sciences which can, for the most part, be but remotely useful to mankind. I have purchased knowledge at the expense of all the common comforts of life: I have missed the endearing elegance of female friendship, and the happy commerce of domestic tenderness.
    Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

    Shall life succeed in that it seems to fail:
    What I aspired to be,
    And was not, comforts me:
    Robert Browning (1812–1889)