Our Poets make us laugh at Tragœdy, And with their Comoedies they make us cry.
Plenty of men can do good work for a spurt and with immediate promotion in mind, but for promotion you want a man in whom good work has become a habit.
Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life.
There ought to be more scrupulous honesty in big business men than in any other human relation. For big business requires teamwork on a gigantic scale.
As civilization progresses, we should improve our laws basically, not superficially. Many things that are lawful are highly immoral and some things which are moral are unlawful.
It is the studying that you do after your school days that really counts. Otherwise, you know only that which everyone else knows.
My idea of the real aristocrat is the master workman, no matter what his line of work may be.
In so far as the culture industry arouses a feeling of well-being that the world is precisely in that order suggested by the culture industry, the substitute gratification which it prepares for human beings cheats them out of the same happiness which it deceitfully projects.
Stupid people go to college but"smart people own them".
It's difficult to keep that perspective, I think, as a parent: to know your boundaries as to what's good parenting or just projecting your own expectations on your kids. That's the hardest.
Without a humble imitation of the divine Author of our blessed religion we can never hope to be a happy nation.