Politeness is the slow poison of collaboration.

It's the good girls who keep the diaries; the bad girls never have the time.

In these troublesome days when the great Mother Empire stands splendidly isolated in Europe.

If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Sex prejudice is so ingrained in our society that many who practice it are simply unaware that they are hurting . It is the last socially acceptable prejudice.

One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.

Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.

In science, as in common life, we frequently see that a novelty in system, or in practice, cannot be duly appreciated till time has sobered the enthusiasm of its advocates.

The first condition for the establishment of perpetual peace is the general adoption of the principles of laissez-faire capitalism.

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act iv. Sc. 3.

Money glitters, beauty sparkles, and intelligence shines.

Let it be impressed upon your minds, let it be instilled into your children, that the liberty of the press is the palladium of all the civil, political, and religious rights.

Sentiment is intellectualized emotion, emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy.

I do now remember the poor creature, small beer. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act ii. Sc. 2.

Feast of Luke the Evangelist No man dares to condemn the Christian faith today, because the Christian faith has not been tried. Not until men get rid of the thought that it is a poor machine, an expedient for saving them from suffering and pain; not until they get the grand idea of it as the great power of God present in and through the lives of men; not until then does Christianity enter upon its true trial and become ready to show what it can do.

It is precisely those things which belong to "the people" which have historically been despoiled- wild creatures, the air, and waterways being notable examples. This goes to the heart of why property rights are socially important in the first place. Property rights mean self-interested monitors. No owned creatures are in danger of extinction. No owned forests are in danger of being leveled. No one kills the goose that lays the golden egg when it is his goose.

To lay aside all prejudices, is to lay aside all principles. He who is destitute of principles is governed by whims.

Men ought to be most annoyed by the sufferings which come from their own faults.]

If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.

A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.