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Taste: a quality possessed by persons without originality or moral courage.

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

The open mind never acts: when we have done our utmost to arrive at a reasonable conclusion, we still. . . must close our minds for the moment with a snap, and act dogmatically on our conclusions.

A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are disgraced by the inferior.

There are two tragedies in life: one is to lose your heart's desire, the other is to gain it.

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.

People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got: everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them.

Better keep yourself clean and bright. You are the window through which you must see the world.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

You see things and you say "Why?"; but I dream things that never were and I say "Why not?".

Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

A man who has no office to go to--I don't care who he is--is a trial of which you can have no conception.

I am giving you examples of the fact that this creature man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero. . . . I tell you, gentlemen, if you can shew a man a piece of what he now calls God's work to do, and what he will later call by many new names, you can make him entirely reckless of the consequences to himself personally.

A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose, and due leisure, whether he be a painter or ploughman.

You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.