A striking feature of moral and political argument in the modern world is the extent to which it is innovators, radicals, and revolutionaries who revive old doctrines, while their conservative and reactionary opponents are the inventors of new ones. – Alasdair Chalmers Macintyre
Principle, particularly moral principal, can never be a weathervane, spinning around this way and that with the shifting winds of expediency. Moral principle is a compass forever fixed and forever true. And that is as important in business as it is in the classroom. – Edward R. Lyman
The greatest discoveries of science have always been those that forced us to rethink our beliefs about the universe and our place in it. – Robert L. Park, in The New York Times, 7 December 1999
The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colors breaking through. – Alexis de Tocqueville
What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing ones ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully. – Victor Cherbuliez
