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The seven deadly sins…Food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes,respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from man’s neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted. Shaw, George Bernard
The senses collect the surface facts of matter…It was sensation; when memory came, it was experience; when mind acted, it was knowledge; when mind acted on it as knowledge, it was thought. Emerson, Ralph Waldo
The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you’ve got it made. Giraudoux, Jean
The secret of success is constancy of purpose. Disraeli, Benjamin
The secret of being a bore is to tell everything. Voltaire
The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious. Spengler, Oswald
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying. Taylor, Jeremy
The stroke of death is as a lover’s pinch, Which hurts and is desired. Shakespeare, William
The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice. Terence
The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds. Addison, Joseph
The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men. Russell, Bertrand
The test of maturity, for nations as well as individuals, is not the increase of power, but in the increase of self, self, self direction, and self transcendence. For in a mature society, man himself and not his machines or his organizations is the chief work of art. Mumford, Lewis
