Rasheed Ogunlaru

The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures.

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him.

As the Sandwich Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.

You don’t get respect if you don’t deserve it

You have to choose between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural stability of the honesty and intelligence of the members of the Government. And, with due respect for these gentlemen, I advise you, as long as the Capitalist system lasts, to vote for gold.

Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to be quite true.

We must substitute courage for caution.

The trade of advertising is now so near perfection that it is not easy to propose any improvement. But as every art ought to be exercised in due subordination to the public good, I cannot but propose it as a moral question to these masters of the public ear, whether they do not sometimes play too wantonly with our passions.

Truth is a naked and open daylight.

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

All colors will agree in the dark.

Socialists think profits are a vice; I consider losses the real vice.

To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as mortals.