| Quotes |
Topic |
| Advice | The cure for admiring the house of lords is to go and look at it. |
| Books and Reading | The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything. |
| Books and Reading | Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders. |
| Business | Business is really more agreeable than pleasure: it interests the whole mind ... but it does not look as if it did. |
| Science | One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. |
| Gods | The Ethiop gods have Ethiop lips, Bronze cheeks, and woolly hair; The Grecian gods are like the Greeks, As keen-eyed, cold and fair. |
| Gods | Speak of the gods as they are. |
| Inspirational | A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. |
| Inspirational | Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison. |
| Literature | A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself. |
| Magic | We must not let daylight in upon the magic. |
| Myth | We must not let daylight in upon the magic. |
| Obedience | Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to think other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits. |
| Government | The notion of a farseeing and despotic statesman, who can lay down plans for ages yet unborn, is a fancy generated by the pride of the human intellect to which facts give no support. |
| Government | A democratic despotism is like a theocracy: it assumes its own correctness. |
| Government | An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle. |
| Government | A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life. |
| Quiet | An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind. |
| Quiet | An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind. |
| Religion | Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger. |
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