Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe and which mean very little.
Eleanor Roosevelt
How strangely men act. They will not praise those who are living at the same time and living with themselves, but to be themselves praised by posterity by those whom they have never seen or ever will see, this they set much value on.
Marcus Aurelius
Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.
John Ruskin
In the country, the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers biding its time.
W. Somerset Maugham
Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.
Aldous Huxley
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it and wiser than the one that comes after it.
George Orwell
I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.
George Bernard Shaw
Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is Nature's way.
Aristotle
