It is strange with how little notice, good, bad, or indifferent, a man may live and die in London.
~ Charles Dickens
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Monthly Archives: June 2024
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From the saintly and single-minded idealist to the fanatic is often but a step.
~ Friedrich Hayek
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If we were willing to evaluate things not according to the opinion of the crowd, but according to nature itself, how is it less repulsive to eat, chew, digest, evacuate, and sleep after the fashion of dumb animals, than to enjoy lawful and permitted carnal relations?
~ Desiderius Erasmus
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
~ Henry James
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Campus Life at the
London School of Economics
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The desire not to destroy the palace but to move into it oneself has always been the occupational curse of revolutionaries.
~ Wilfrid Sheed
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The ancestor of every action is a thought.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Campus Life at the
University of Edinburgh
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By temperament I’m a vagabond and a tramp.
~ William Faulkner
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If we exiled our sins, our virtues would get lonely without their old sparring partners.
~ Henry S. Haskins
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