The poorest education that teaches self-control is better than the best that neglects it.

One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

For a few political turncoats there is real excuse. One can hardly blame those whom one ministry have seen fit to throw overboard for having the strength to swim to the other side.

The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

conversation is now pretty well a lost art.

It is, I think, a good deal owing to the preponderance of the commercial element in Society that conversation has sunk to its present dull level of conventional chatter.

A valuable qualification of a modern politician seems to be a capacity for concealing or explaining away the truth.

If all men and women were kept at some useful employment there would be less sorrow and wickedness in the world.

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

It would be fun, ” Skulduggery nodded. ”I like kicking Wreath in the face. I haven't had a chance to do it nearly as much as I'd like.

Rust may never sleep, but then, neither does moss.

Parvus denied that universal suffrage was an end to itself since the middle class would always find ways to manipulate the electoral system. Freedom could not be begged for: it had to be won.

A small fact:You are going to die....does this worry you?

The existence of the soldier, next to capital punishment, is the most grievous vestige of barbarism which survives among men.

I have often repented of speech but hardly ever of silence.

A key ingredient to success, I learned, is relying on not only the kindness of strangers, but the kindness of colleagues.

motivation alone is not enough.if you have an idiot and you motivate him,now you have a motivated idiot.

Radium is not to enrich any one. It is an element; it is for all people.

The trance of unworthiness keeps the sweetness of belonging out of reach. The path to "the sweetness of belonging," is acceptance - acceptance of ourselves and acceptance of others without judgment.