39 Quotes by John Bartlett

As for a future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities.

The sea is the lands's edge also, the granite / Into which it reaches, the beaches where it tosses / Its hints of earlier and other creation: / The starfish, the hermit crab, the whales's backbone; / The pools where it offers to our curiosity / The more delicate algae and the sea anemone.

Monday's child is fair of face, / Tuesday's child is full of grace, / Wednesday's child is full of woe, / Thursday's child has far to go, / Friday's child is loving and giving, / Saturday's child has to work for its living, / But a child that's born on the Sabbath day, / Is fair and wise and good and gay.

So there was a new breed of adventurers, urban adventurers who drifted out at night looking for action with a black man's code to fit their acts. The hipster had absorbed the existentialist synapses of the Negro, and for practical purpose could be considered a white Negro.

There's nothing sadder than an old hipster.

The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

All that mankind has done, thought, gained or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.