Douglas William Jerrold Quotes About Duty

Quotes about: Duty

• A creature undefiled by the taint of the world, unvexed by its injustice, unwearied by its hollow pleasures; a being fresh from the source of light, with something of its universal lustre in it. If childhood be this, how holy the duty to see that in its onward growth it shall be no other!

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Children, Light, Childhood

• Duty, though set about by thorns, may still be made a staff supporting even while it tortures. Cast it away, and, like the prophet's wand, it changes to a snake.

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Snakes, May, Thorns

  Douglas William Jerrold (1851). “St. Giles and St. James”, p.277

• Man owes two solemn debts--one to society, and one to-nature. It is only when he pays the second that he covers the first.

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Men, Two, Debt

  Douglas William Jerrold, Blanchard Jerrold (1859). “Specimens of Douglas Jerrold's wit: together with selections, chiefly from his contributions to journals, intended to illustrate his opinions”, p.40

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