Walbeck Group Quotes & Sayings

Everybody who really does what he is capable of, is a hero — Mats Hummels

In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart. — Blaise Pascal

A personal library is a reflection of who you are and who you want to be, of what you value and what you desire, of how much you know and how much more you'd like to know. — Michael Dirda

There are reproaches which praise, and praises which defame. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I do not imagine that many people in the fifteenth century ever wondered if they were living in the Italian Renaissance. — Carl Sagan

When I ply the cutlass and make the equivalent of sixpence, idiot conscience applauds me. But if I sit in the house and make twenty pounds by writing, idiot conscience wails over my neglect and the day wasted. No, to come down covered with mud and drenched with sweat and rain after some hours in the bush. To change, rub down, and take a chair in the verandah, that makes for a quiet conscience. — Matthew Pearl

Philistine - a word which I understand properly to denote indifference to the higher intellectual interests. The word may also be defined, however, as the name applied by prigs to the rest of their species. — Leslie Stephen

For he who quells disorder by a very few signal examples will in the end be more merciful than he who from too great leniency permits things to take their course and so to result in rapine and bloodshed; for these hurt the whole State, whereas the severities of the Prince injure individuals only. — Niccolo Machiavelli

We're in a new world. We're in a world in which the possibility of terrorism, married up with technology, could make us very, very sorry that we didn't act. — Condoleezza Rice

Health can make money, but money cannot make health. — Maria Edgeworth

Yesterday is gone forever. Make the most of today and tomorrow if you wish to make up for lost time. — Napoleon Hill