There is often no material difference between the enjoyment of the highest ranks and those of the rudest stages of society. If the life of many a young English nobleman, and an Iroquois in the forest, or an Arab in the desert are compared. it will be found that their real sources of happiness are nearly the same.


Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical (1917)

Archibald Alison Quotes

There is often no material difference between the enjoyment of the highest ranks and those of the rudest stages of society. If the life of many a...

There is often no material difference between the enjoyment of the highest ranks and those of the rudest stages of society. If the life of many a...

There is often no material difference between the enjoyment of the highest ranks and those of the rudest stages of society. If the life of many a...

There is often no material difference between the enjoyment of the highest ranks and those of the rudest stages of society. If the life of many a...