Quotes of the day, March 7
Beauty is a social necessity.
James Goldsmith
September 13
Today the sort of thing for a guy in England growing up is that you have to suppress all your emotions. It's almost like you have to sit back and be cool.
Freddie Highmore
September 12
Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity…It is a part of nature.
Herbert Spencer
September 11
The child takes most of his nature of the mother, besides speech, manners, and inclination.
Herbert Spencer
September 10
A situation in a public office is secure, but laborious and mechanical, and without the great springs of life, hope and fear.
William Hazlitt
September 9
Bravery is a mean state concerned with things that inspire confidence and with things fearful ... and leading us to choose danger and to face it, either because to do so is noble, or because not to do so is base. But to court death as an escape from poverty, or from love, or from some grievous pain, is no proof of bravery, but rather of cowardice.
Aristotle
