Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm... nor cold, light nor dark. The pleasure they give is steady, unorgastic, reliable, deep and long-lasting. In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Without the Empire we should be tossed like a cork in the cross current of world politics. It is at once our sword and our shield.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My esoteric doctrine, is that if you entertain any doubt, it is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit f...rom the unpopular, is easy ... but from the popular to the unpopular is so steep and rugged that it is impossible to maintain it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Your friends praise your abilities to the skies, submit to you in argument, and seem to have the greatest deference for you; but, ...though they may ask it, you never find them following your advice upon their own affairs; nor allowing you to manage your own, without thinking that you should follow theirs. Thus, in fact, they all think themselves wiser than you, whatever they may say.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., whi...ch are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »