“Wealth as a whole consists in using things rather than in owning them; it is really the activity - that is, the use - of property that constitutes wealth.”
Aristotle Rhetoric Book I
“Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.”
Lao-Tsu in the “Tao Teh King” [sic] quoted in Anthony Robbins Unlimited Power
“for there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.”
Hamlet to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in William Shakespeare Hamlet
“In general terms I think that morality depends upon religion…”
James Fitzjames Stephen in Liberty Equality Fraternity
’Nothing succeeds like success” - Alexandre Dumas in Ange Pitou 1854
“Nothing succeeds like excess” - Oscar Wilde 1894
“Nothing recedes like success” - Bryan Forbes 1926
“Nothing succeeds like address” - Fran Lebowitz 1978
“those who attach too much importance to immediate victory will abandon any project at the first hint of failure. There is nothing that fails like success.” - G.K. Chesterton in Heretics 1905
All from Gilbert! magazine Vol. 6 #7 (June 2003)
“Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense. There are 40 men of wit for one of sense; and he that will carry nothing about him but gold, will be every day at a loss for want of readier change.”
Alexander Pope, quoted in Globe & Mail January 29, 1997
“The most neglected history is recent history.”
G.K. Chesterton, quoted by Luke Sharp in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 7 #4 (Jan.-Feb. 2004)
“No society can be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. It is but equity, besides, that they who feed, cloath and lodge the whole body of the people, should have such a share of the produce of their own labour as to be themselves tolerably well fed, cloathed and lodged.”
Adam Smith, quoted in Lionel Robbins The Theory of Economic Policy in English Classical Political Economy