Good and evil lie close together. Seek no artistic unity in character.
Lord Acton.
“If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.”
“Learn as much by writing as by reading.”
“History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.”
“And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that.”
“Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
“Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.”
“If you're not making someone else's life better, then you're wasting your time. Your life will become better by making other lives better.”
“You are protected, in short, by your ability to love!”
“Life becomes easier and more beautiful when we can see the good in other people.”
“Another decent possibility my critics implicitly deny is that of work as a giftThey assumeand this is the orthodox assumption of the industrial economythat the only help worth giving is not given a...”
“Happiness doesn't result from what we get, but from what we give.”
“You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.”