Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes....

English journalism enjoyed a golden age in the quarter century preceding the advent of broadcasting in the 1920s. With mass as well as class readerships and with no other medium as a rival in shaping opinion or disseminating news, the pres...

The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will....

You win some, you lose some, and some get rained out, but you gotta suit up for them all. You win some, you lose some, and some get rained out, but you gotta suit up for them all....

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love. I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love....

The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least possible amount of hissing. The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers ...

We may with complete detachment study and form a judgement upon a religion, but we cannot maintain our detachment if the subject of our inquiry proves to be God Himself. This is, of course, why many otherwise honest intellectual people wil...

There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age--I missed it coming and going....

Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners and rules the world with the hand of a despot....

[Jesus'] life and utterance were the proclamation of this new order of things, of this new force by which man was to be ruled. When, unarmed and defenseless, He said to the Roman power, "My Kingdom is not of this world," He spoke the word ...

Who has not hopedTo outrage an enemy's dignity?Who has not been sweptBy the wish to hurt?And who has not thought that the impersonal worldDeserves no better than to be destroyedBy one fabulous sign of his displeasure? - The Face of Violenc...

Repentance may be old-fashioned, but it is not outdated so long as there is sin. Repentance may be old-fashioned, but it is not outdated so long as there is sin....

John Collings Squire ( 1882 – 1958 ) was a British poet, writer, historian, and influential literary editor of the post-World War I period. Sourced It did not last: the devil, shouting 'Ho. Let Einstein be' restored the status quo. This ...

Those who mistake their good luck for their merit are inevitably bound for disaster....

Every time I try to define a perfectly stable person, I am appalled by the dullness of that person....

We would rather have one man or woman working with us than three merely working for us....

The mind contracts herself and shrinketh in, And to herself she gladly doth retire....

There are times when I think that the ideal library is composed solely of reference books. They are like understanding friends-always ready to change the subject when you have had enough of this or that....

It is not the position, but the disposition....

The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified....

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions. A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman, of the next generation....

Love fails, only when we fail to love. -J. Franklin. Time is the glue that bonds a broken heart, but love is the air which dries the glue. -J. Franklin....

Hate no one; hate their vices, not themselves....

Image creates desire. You will what you imagine....

Tom Goodwin was an actor man, Old Drury's pride and boast, In all the light and spritely parts, Especially the ghost. A very man--not one of nature's clods-- With human failings, whether saint or sinner: Endowed perhaps with genius from th...