Society and the World

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

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

The trouble is that everyone talks about reforming others, and no one thinks about reforming himself.

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.

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

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

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.

Prosperity knits a man to the world. He thinks he's 'finding his place in it,' while really it is finding its place in him.

Of all tyrannies a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

Of all tyrannies a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

Man has his will - but woman has her way.

Taxes are the price we pay for civilization.

Taxes are the price we pay for civilization.

The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.

The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.

The individual will always be a minority. If a man is in a minority of one, we lock him up.

The individual will always be a minority. If a man is in a minority of one, we lock him up.

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.