“The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed”
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“The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed”
“You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life ”
“The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius ”
“Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.”
“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 ”
“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”
“I would jump down Etna for any public good - but I hate a mawkish popularity.”
“The Public is a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility”
“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”
“I equally dislike the favor of the public with the love of a woman, they are both a cloying treacle to the wings of independence”
“Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never”
“The thoughts written on the walls of madhouses by their inmates might be worth publicizing”
“When you see a man with a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend upon it, he keeps a very small stock of it within”
“A village is a hive of glass, where nothing unobserved can pass”