Society and the World

Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one’s liberty.

Remember, we learn nothing by speaking.

Men may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Men may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.

He that is overcautious will accomplish little.

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one has to do.

Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.

Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

To follow knowledge like a sinking star,

 

Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough

 

Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy.

 

I am become a name;

 

At Flores in the Azores Sir Richard Grenville lay.

 

At Flores in the Azores Sir Richard Grenville lay.

 

And the sun went down, and the stars came out far over the summer sea,

 

Home they brought her warrior dead.

 

The splendour falls on castle walls

 

The splendour falls on castle walls

 

With prudes for proctors, dowagers for deans,

 

With prudes for proctors, dowagers for deans,

 

Science moves, but slowly slowly, creeping on from point to point.

 

Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rained a ghastly dew

 

Till the war-drum throbbed no longer, and the battle-flags were furled