58 Quotes by Arthur Hugh Clough

I sit at my table en grand seigneur , And when I have done, throw a crust to the poor; Not only the pleasure, one's self, of good living, But also the pleasure of now and then giving. So pleasant it is to have money, heigh ho! So pleasant it is to have money.

Action will furnish belief,-but will that belief be the true one? This is the point, you know.

There is no God', the wicked saith, 'And truly it's a blessing, For what he might have done with us It's better only guessing.

Old things need not be therefore true, O brother men, nor yet the new; Ah! still awhile the old thought retain, And yet consider it again!

As I sat at the Cafe I said to myself, They may talk as they please about what they call pelf, They may sneer as they like about eating and drinking, But help it I cannot, I cannot help thinking How pleasant it is to have money, heigh-ho! How pleasant it is to have money!

What voice did on my spirit fall, Peschiera, when thy bridge I crost? 'Tis better to have fought and lost That never to have fought at all!

How pleasant it is to have money.

And almost everyone when age, disease, or sorrows strike him, inclines to think there is a God, or something very like him.

Do not adultery commit; Advantage rarely comes of it.