Best 10 quotes of Francis Marion Crawford on MyQuotes

Every man carries with him the world in which he must live.

In spite of Jean-Jacques and his school, men are not everywhere born free, any more than they are everywhere in chains, unless these be of their own individual making.

No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship.

They fell, but o'er their glorious grave Floats free the banner of the cause they died to save.

To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.

To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself. [It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. It is best to plan for all eventualities then believe in success, and only cross the failure bridge if you come to it!]

Death is only a translation of life into another language.

I have seen an evil thing this night,' he said; 'I have seen how the dead drink the blood of the living. And the blood is the life.

I will come,' the priest answered, 'for I have read in old books of these strange beings which are neither quick nor dead, and which lie ever fresh in their graves, stealing out in the dusk to taste life and blood.

What has life given me? The beginning is fire, the end is a heap of ashes, and between the end and the beginning lies all the pain in the world.