Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught.
To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them.
Benjamin Disraeli
Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.
Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.
Little things affect little minds.
We moralize among ruins.
Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.
In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of co-operation, but of isolation, as to the making of fortunes; and for all the rest they are careless of neighbors. Christianity teaches us to love our neighbor as ourselves; modern society acknowledges no neighbor.
News is that which comes from the North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point on the compass, then it is a class ; publication and not news.
Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.
Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.
No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition. It reduces their supporters to that tractable number which can be managed by the joint influences of fruition and hope. It offers vengeance to the discontented, and distinction to the ambitious; and employs the energies of aspiring spirits, who otherwise may prove traitors in a division or assassins in a debate.
You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest.
That doctrine of peace at any price has done more mischief than any I can well recall that have been afloat in this country. It has occasioned more wars than any of the most ruthless conquerors. It has disturbed and nearly destroyed that political equilibrium so necessary to the liberties and the welfare of the world.
Plagiarists at least have the quality of preservation.
The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.
The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.
There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.
Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.
Are there memories left that are safe from the clutches of phony anniversaries?
W. J. Wetherby
Buyers are graded not only on their successes, but also on their failures. Too many hits means the buyer isn't taking enough chances.
Leslie Wexner
He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.
Richard Whately
A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them a fortune.
Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.
In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed, we see most dimly the objects which are close around us.
Weak arguments are often thrust before my path; but although they are most insubstantial, it is not easy to destroy them. There is not a more difficult feat known than to cut through a cushion with a sword.
To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.
As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?
Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.
Unless people can be kept in the dark, it is best for those who love the truth to give them the full light.
Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.
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Frank Lloyd Wright
When two quarrel, both are in the wrong.
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There is no point in arguing about matters of taste.
There are usually two sides to every argument but no end.
People who know the least always argue the most.
If you argue with a woman and win, you lose.
An argument is like a country road, you never know where it is going to lead.
A sure way of getting the last word in an argument is to say you right.
Defend your limitations and you own them!
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