“Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine; the commonest man shows a grace in his quarrel”
“Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine; the commonest man shows a grace in his quarrel”
“The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius ”
“Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman”
“The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies ”
“Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.”
“I would jump down Etna for any public good - but I hate a mawkish popularity.”
“You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life ”