Grace is the absence of everything that indicates — William Hazlitt

A great mind is one that can forget or look beyond itself. One has no notion of him [William Cobbett] as making use of a fine pen, but a great mutton-fist; his style stuns his readers. . . . He is too much for any single newspaper antagonist; “lays waste” a city orator or Mem… Read more → Zeal will do more than knowledge. Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.

I do not cut my life up into days but my days into lives, each day, each hour, an entire life. Juan Ramón Jiménez You may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can’t fool all of the people all the time. also attributed to Phineas Barnum Abraham Lincoln Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves. Henry David Thoreau Reprove your friend in secret and praise him openly. Leonardo da Vinci