“ The greatest please in life is doing what people say you cannot do. ”
We see but one aspect of our neighbor, as we see but one side of the moon; in either case there is also a dark half, which is unknown to us. We all come down to dinner, but each has a room to himself.
~ Walter Bagehot
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
The best reason why monarchy is a strong government is that it is an intelligible government: the mass of mankind understand it and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.
Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.
