A.T. Baron Quotes
I will always take on a new challenge. I believe in jumping off the ship every now and then. If you don't, you won't really learn how to swim
Gold and silver are constituted, by the nature of things, money, and universal money, independent of all convention, and of all laws.
One of the least impressive liberties is the liberty to starve. This particular liberty is freely accorded to authors.
I think the more aggressive I am on defense helps me to get easier buckets and get in a good grove.
Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor.
The spirit of commerce... renders every man willing to live on his own property...& prevents the growth of luxury.
At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.
We ought to be very cautious and circumspect in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty.
Each citizen contributes to the revenues of the State a portion of his property in order that his tenure of the rest may be secure.
Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
Your reality, Sir, is lies and balderdash and I'm delighted to say that I have no grasp of it whatsoever!
The lower classes are such fools. They waste their money on the pools. I bet, of course, but that's misleading. One must encourage bloodstock breeding.
Animal research saves lives, but wherever possible alternatives should be used
Nothing in politics is ever so good or as bad as it first appears.
In science, address the few, in literature the many. In science, the few must dictate opinion to the many; in literature, the many, sooner or later, force their judgement on the few.
You know There are moments when silence, prolonged and unbroken, More expressive may be than all words ever spoken.
Better than fame is still the wish for fame, the constant training for a glorious strife.
Centuries roll, customs change, but, ever since the time of the earliest mother, woman yearns to be the soother.
A woman too often reasons from her heart; hence two-thirds of her mistakes and her troubles.
As it has been finely expressed, "Principle is a passion for truth." And as an earlier and homelier writer hath it, "The truths we believe in are the pillars of our world.
Every man loves and admires his own country because it produced him.
Talk not of genius baffled. Genius is master of man. Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can.
Of all the virtues necessary to the completion of the perfect man, there is none to be more delicately implied and less ostentatiously vaunted than that of exquisite feeling or universal benevolence.
It is the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and the good remains.
In life, as in whist, hope nothing from the way cards may be dealt to you. Play the cards, whatever they be, to the best of your skill.
Every street has two sides, the shady side and the sunny. When two men shake hands and part, mark which of the two takes the sunny side; he will be the younger man of the two.
It is an error to suppose that courage means courage in everything.
Leave glory to great folks. Ah, castles in the air cost a vast deal to keep up!
Not in the knowledge of things without, but in the perfection of the soul within, lies the empire of man aspiring to be more than man.
The brave man wants no charms to encourage him to his duty, and the good man scorns all warnings that would deter him from fulfilling it.
To the thinker, the most trifling external object often suggests ideas, which, like Homer's chain, extend, link after link, from earth to heaven.
He whom God hath gifted with a love of retirement possesses, as it were, an extra sense.
Wrap thyself in the decent veil that the arts or the graces weave for thee, O human nature! It is only the statue of marble whose nakedness the eye can behold without shame and offence!
There is an ill-breeding to which, whatever our rank and nature, we are almost equally sensitive, the ill-breeding that comes from want of consideration for others.
He who seeks repentance for the past, should woo the angel virtue for the future.
