John W. Forney Quotes

FORNEY, John W. Quotes

(1817-1881), American politician and journalist

Gratitude

Gratitude is a virtue most deified and yet most deserted; it is the ornament of rhetoric and the libel of practical life.

Riches

The sons of the rich, the educated darlings of wealthy families, are nowhere.—All their gifts were only so many fatal temptations, and they themselves are forgotten, like bad copies of good pictures.