We are wiser than we know.
We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?
Nothing astonishes people so much as common sense and plain dealing.
Beauty rests on necessities.
I pay the schoolmaster, but it is the school boys who educate my son.
There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
Gratitude is a debt which usually goes on accumulating like blackmail; the more you pay, the more is exacted. In time, you are made to realize that the kindness done you is become a curse and you wish it had not happened.
Hunger is never delicate; they who are seldom gorged to the full with praise may be safely fed with gross compliments, for the appetite must be satisfied before it is disgusted.
For what are the classics but the noblest thoughts of man? They are the only oracles which are not decayed, and there are such answers to the most modern inquiry in them as Delphi and Dodona never gave. We might as well omit to study Nature because she is old.
Every artist was first an amateur.
Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one’s self?
To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.
I know that we will be the sufferers if we let great wrongs occur without exerting ourselves to correct them.
The late M. Venizelos observed that in all her wars Englandhe should have said Britain, of coursealways wins one battlethe last.
Commerce is a game of skill which everyone cannot play and few can play well.
It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.
I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.
The more I see the less I know for sure.
Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.
