I've always been fascinated by the picaresque.
The cloud never comes from the quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.
I look at [books] as a child looks at cakes - with glittering eyes and a watering mouth, imagining the pleasure that awaits him.
Those who are happy and successful themselves are too apt to make light of the misfortunes of others.
There is nothing like wounded affection for giving poignancy to anger.
But the future must be met, however stern and iron it be.
I dare not hope. I never was fainthearted before; but I cannot believe such a creature cares for me.
Even non-commercial media rely on transferring cost to users through licence fees, donations from listeners, viewers, or readers, or grants from companies and foundations that have wrestled their funds from the public in some form of earlier commercial activity.
I cannot morally blame all Americans for allowing, for instance, the birth of the Federal Reserve System and the money destruction that has followed. They are simply ignorant about it and don’t know what happened or what is happening. They think that prices go up rather than that dollars go down.
We need an unambiguous rule - a law - that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.
Learn what is true in order to do what is right.