Society and the World

Honesty pays, but it don’t seem to pay enough to suit a lot of people.

As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must we take the examination system seriously. If another ladder to employment was contrived, much so-called education would disappear, and no one would be a penny the stupider.

As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must we take the examination system seriously. If another ladder to employment was contrived, much so-called education would disappear, and no one would be a penny the stupider.

It is not in doing what you like, but in liking what you do that is the secret of happiness.

Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.

One of the eternal conflicts out of which life is made up is that between the efforts of every man to get the most he can for his services and that of society disguised under the name of capital to get his services for the least possible return.

One of the eternal conflicts out of which life is made up is that between the efforts of every man to get the most he can for his services and that of society disguised under the name of capital to get his services for the least possible return.

Success doesn't come to you...you go to it.

Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the Headless Monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.

Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the Headless Monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.

Surely a tired woman on her way to work at six in the morning on a subway deserves the right to get there safely.

Surely a tired woman on her way to work at six in the morning on a subway deserves the right to get there safely.

The Congress will push me to raise taxes, and I'll say no, and they'll push and I'll say no, and they'll push again.

So cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done.

I take as my guide the hope of a saint in crucial things, unity - in important things, diversity - in all things, generosity.

Ours not to reason why Ours but to do and die.

'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.' J. R. R.

When a fellow says it ain't the money but the principle of the thing, it's the money.

Don't knock the weather nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.

The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth . . .

To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.

We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread.

I was not born to be free. I was born to adore and to obey.

It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us.