Property is organized robbery.
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence of inhumanity.
Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.
You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it….
Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not.
Kings are not born they are made by universal hallucination.
Let your family, staff, and friends know that you’re still the same person, despite all the publicity and notoriety that accompanies your position.
Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.
In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.
A good scare is worth more than good advice.
Familiarity breeds contempt and children.
The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit.
The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.
The basis of good manners is self-reliance.
You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.
Until we have seen someone’s darkness, we don’t really know who they are. Until we have forgiven someone’s darkness , we don’t really know what love is.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
The perch swallows the grub-worm, the pickerel swallows the perch, and the fisherman swallows the pickerel; and so all the chinks in the scale of being are filled.
There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not slept, or if you have slept, or if you have headache, or sciatica, or leprosy, or thunder-stroke, I beseech you, by all angels, to hold your peace, and not pollute the morning.
As you get older, you realize that no one has all the answers. It turns out that life is an exercise in living with the certainty of uncertainty. – Jason Kilar
Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.
