Mcgorman Maclean Quotes & Sayings

Giving alms is only a virtuous deed when you give money that you yourself worked to get. — Leo Tolstoy

Europe was best described, to his mind, as an elaborate engine for dissociating the confined American from that indispensable knowledge, and was accordingly only rendered bearable by these occasional stations of relief, traps for the arrest of wandering western airs. — Henry James

As Michel de Montaigne observed, "The least strained and most natural ways of the soul are the most beautiful; the best occupations are the least forced."
p 233 — Gretchen Rubin

Both in their origins and effects, boredom and stuffy air resemble each other. They are usually generated whenever a large number of people gather together in a closed room. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

If it's important you'll find a way. If it's not, you'll find an excuse. — Ryan Blair

[Necessity is] the sum of all things, which being now existent, conduce and concur to the production of that action hereafter, whereof if any one thing now were wanting, the effect could not be produced. This concourse of causes, whereof every one is determined to be such as it is by a like concourse of former causes, may well be called (in respect they were all set and ordered by the eternal causes of all things, God Almighty) the decree of God. — Thomas Hobbes