Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.
From John Ruskin
No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart.
In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.
You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.
Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.
There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.
The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.
One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.
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