The Man of Feeling Quotes

“Indeed, I have observed one ingredient, somewhat necessary in a man’s composition towards happiness, which people of feeling would do well to acquire; a certain respect for the follies of mankind: for there are so many fools whom the opinion of the world entitles to regard, whom accident has placed in heights of which they are unworthy, that he who cannot restrain his contempt or indignation at the sight will be too often quarrelling with the disposal of things to relish that share which is allotted to himself. ”
― Henry MacKenzie, The Man of Feeling

“but the world is apt to make an erroneous estimate: ignorant of the dispositions which constitute our happiness or misery, they bring to an undistinguished scale the means of the one, as connected with power, wealth, or grandeur, and of the other with their contraries.  Philosophers and poets have often protested against this decision; but their arguments have been despised as declamatory, or ridiculed as romantic.”
― Henry MacKenzie, The Man of Feeling

“As for faces - you may look into them to know, whether a man's nose be a long or a short one.”
― Henry MacKenzie, The Man of Feeling

“In this world of semblance, we are contented with personating happiness; to feel it, is an art beyond us.”
― Henry MacKenzie, The Man of Feeling