A.T. Baron Quotes
Limitation is not a matter of justice. It is a rule of public policy which has its origin in history and its justification in convenience.
Defeatism about the past is a grievous error; defeatism about the future is a crime!
War is a damnable, filthy thing and has destroyed civilization after civilization
Man must be disappointed with the lesser things of life before he can comprehend the full value of the greater.
Fortune is said to be blind, but her favorites never are. Ambition has the eye of the eagle, prudence that of the lynx; the first looks through the air, the last along the ground.
He who doth not smoke hath either known no great griefs, or refuseth himself the softest consolation, next to that which comes from heaven.
A man is arrogant in proportion to his ignorance. Man's natural tendency is to egotism. Man, in his infancy of knowledge, thinks that all creation was formed for him.
When a man is not amused, he feels an involuntary contempt for those who are.
Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.
Fate! There is no fate. Between the thought and the success God is the only agent. Fate is not the ruler, but the servant of Providence.
Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many.
When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.
What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.
As men are affected in all ages by the same passions, the occasions which bring about great changes are different, but the causes are always the same.
Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.
Earnestness is the best gift of mental power, and deficiency of heart is the cause of many men never becoming great.
In the end it may well be that Britain will be honored by the historians more for the way she disposed of an empire than for the way in which she acquired it.
There are really only three things to learn in skiing: how to put on your skis, how to slide downhill, and how to walk along the hospital corridor.
A husband should tell his wife everything that he is sure she will find out, and before anyone else does.
A man of genius is inexhaustible only in proportion as he is always renourishing his genius.
You may fail to shine in the opinion of others, both in our conversation and actions, from being superior, as well as inferior to them.
The heart of a man's like that delicate weed, / Which requires to be trampled on, boldly indeed / Ere it gives forth the fragrance you wish to extract.
How little praise warms out of a man the good that is in him, as the sneer of contempt which he feels is unjust chill the ardor to excel.
Whether or not patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel, national security can be the last refuge of the tyrant.
Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.
If a good face is a letter of recommendation, a good heart is a letter of credit.
I am convinced that these ojects do exist and that they are not manufactured by any nations on earth
There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.
The affections are immortal! They are the sympathies which unite the ceaseless generations.
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
If there is a virtue in the world at which we should always aim, it is cheerfulness.
Some have the temperament and tastes of genius, without its creative power. They feel acutely, but express tamely.
A good wife must be strong enough to pull a plough and have a very erotic physique.
Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature.