Every one, even the richest and most munificent of men, pays much by cheque more light-heartedly than he pays little in specie. – Max Beerbohm, “Hosts and Guests,” 1918
Theres a very big gulf between the black civil rights leadership in America and the black middle class in America. The black middle class are conservative. Many of those minorities can be persuaded to be members of the Republican Party. – Pete du Pont
I believe we are free, within limits, and yet there is an unseen hand, a guiding angel, that somehow, like a submerged propeller, drives us on. – Rabindranath Tagore
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday. – Ralph Waldo Emerson