While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
You have learned something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.
If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.
Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.
Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.
The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
~ H.G. Wells, English Author
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