The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality

I find that doing the will of God leaves me with no time for disputing about His plans.

All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.

You will swim without cork .

Drawing is the true test of art.

A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected.

And now how abhorred in my imagination it is!

Sweet babe, in thy face Soft desires I can trace, Secret joys and secret smiles, Little pretty infant wiles.

God put me on earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind, I will live forever.

The wife was pretty, trifling, childish, weak; She could not think, but would not cease to speak.

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.

If the truth were known, many sermons are prepared and preached with more regard for the sermon than the souls of the hearers.

winning isn't the only thing, it's everything.

There's never a new fashion but it's old. - The Canterbury Tales.

Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others.

The brave man is not he who feels no fear, For that were stupid and irrational; But he, whose noble soul its fears subdues, And bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from.

A computer will not make a good manager out of a bad manager. It makes a good manager better faster and a bad manager worse faster.

The fundamental idea of modern capitalism is not the right of the individual to possess and enjoy what he has earned, but the ;thesis that the exercise of this right redounds to the general good.

It is a good part of sagacity to have known the foolish desires of the crowd and their unreasonable notions.