The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist. – Thomas Carlyle, Sir Walter Scott, in London and Westminster Review, 12 November Category: Miscellaneous
For people who live on expectations, to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal. – Elizabeth Bowen Category: Miscellaneous
There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats grapenuts on principle. – G.K. Chesterton Category: Miscellaneous
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it. – Woodrow T. Wilson Category: Swimming
Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity. – George Bernard Shaw Category: Ethics
