Top 15 Henry S. Haskins Quotes

For a competent audience, uncommon men must have other uncommon men.

The things we counterfeit are not worth the trouble of falling into disgrace with ourselves.

How often our bosom swells and our temples throb to a thought which proves itself not to be worth anything but for the exaltation we feel while the swelling and throbbing are going on, which after all is something.

Discontent follows ambition like a shadow.

Good behavior is the last refuge of mediocrity.

Normal is the wrong name often used for average.

We condemn a sin before we have even tried it.

Tradition supplants inspiration with the warmed-over article.

We are no more alike under the skin than we are on top of it.

It is getting what we started to get, not the thing got, which spells success.

Who can set us straight in our labyrinth from the mazes of his own?

What lies behind us and what lies before us are but tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

If someone offers to furnish a sure test, ask what the test was which made the sure test sure.

Some live lies who won’t tell them; some tell lies who won’t live them.

Where you find imagination tracing the outlines and reason filling in the details, there you have a man.