Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.
If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.
A jay hasnt got any more principle than a Congressman. A jay will lie, a jay will steal, a jay will deceive, a jay will betray; and four times out of five, a jay will go back on his solemnest promise.
The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.
Merry Christmas! the man threatened.
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.
We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.
Let your character be kept up the very end, just as it began, and so be consistent.
Reading Proust isn’t just reading a book, it’s an experience and you can’t reject an experience.
Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.
The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants.
We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
Any 20 year-old who isn’t a liberal doesn’t have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn’t a conservative doesn’t have a brain.
The Country is both the Philosopher’s Garden and his Library, in which he Reads and Contemplates the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God.
That’s what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he’s wise.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
Character is just another word for having a perfectly disciplined and educated will.
Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen.
