Society and the World

That lyf so short,

Wommen desiren to have sovereynetee

A likerous mouth moste han a likerous tayl.

This noble ensample to his sheep he yaf,

Nowher so bisy a man as he ther nas,

Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never led to good intention’s goal.

There are only two families in the world … the haves and the have-nots.

There are only two families in the world … the haves and the have-nots.

Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of bird song.

If you want to inspire confidence, give plenty of statistics.

‘What’s the good of Mercator’s North Poles and Equators,

‘What’s the good of Mercator’s North Poles and Equators,

He’s an Anglo-Saxon Messenger—and those are Anglo-Saxon attitudes.

‘The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master—that’s all.’

‘Contrariwise,’ continued Tweedledee, ‘if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be: but as it isn’t, it ain’t. That’s logic.’

The true University of these days is a collection of books.

A Parliament speaking through reporters to Buncombe and the twenty-seven millions mostly fools.

France was long a despotism tempered by epigrams.

The seagreen Incorruptible.

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gunpowder, Printing, and the Protestant Religion.

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gunpowder, Printing, and the Protestant Religion.

To the very last he [Napoleon] had a kind of idea; that, namely, of La carrière ouverte aux talents, The tools to him that can handle them.

To the very last he [Napoleon] had a kind of idea; that, namely, of La carrière ouverte aux talents, The tools to him that can handle them.

In epochs when cash payment has become the sole nexus of man to man.