Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered — either by themselves or by others. But for the Civil War, Lincoln and Grant and Sherman and Sheridan would not have been discovered, nor have risen into notice.
~ Mark Twain
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Category Archives: 2358 – Quote Unquote
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The State is the great fiction through which everyone endeavours to live at the expense of everyone else.
~ Frédéric Bastiat
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The culture of a civilization is the art and literature through which it rises to consciousness of itself and defines its vision of the world.
~ Roger Scruton
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Conservatism is a philosophy of inheritance and stewardship; it does not squander resources but strives to enhance them and pass them on.
~ Roger Scruton
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one enemy can do more hurt, than ten friends can do good.
~ Jonathan Swift
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Nationality is not the only kind of social membership, nor is it an exclusive tie. However, it is the only form of membership that has so far shown itself able to sustain a democratic process and a liberal rule of law.
~ Roger Scruton
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Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches, as to conceive how others can be in want.
~ Jonathan Swift
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Worcester is famous for the snow dumps it receives in the winter. It has something to do with where the city is in relation to the Appalachian Mountains. The clouds bear down when the temperature drops, and then the snow is relentless and the weather is brutal. All winter, it’s brutal, brutal, brutal, and then somehow, slowly, it’s not anymore. That’s kind of how the end of W.P.I.’s crisis arrived.
~ Jordan Kisner via The New York Times Magazine
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
~ Henry James
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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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