Category: Quotations

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.William Wrigley Jr.

We are whole beings.  We know this somewhere in a part of ourselves that feels like memory.Susan Griffin

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy.  The savage’s whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe.  Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.Ayn Rand, “The Fountainhead”

There are many forms of stupidity, and cleverness is the worst.Thomas Mann

True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self, but the point is not only to get out you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.Henry James