58 Quotes by Arthur Hugh Clough

Truth is a golden thread, seen here and there In small bright specks upon the visible side Of our strange being’s party-coloured web.

This world is bad enough maybe; We do not comprehend it; But in one fact can all agree God won’t, and we can’t mend it.

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.

Dance on, dance on, we see, we see Youth goes, alack, and with it glee, A boy the old man ne’er can be; Maternal thirty scarce can find The sweet sixteen long left behind.