The most famous courtesy book is Il Cortegiano by Baldassare Castiglione, published in 1528.
Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
Those who are truly grateful are deeply moved by the privilege of living.
If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.
Do we not each dream of dreams? Do we not dance on the notes of lost
I don't have a lot of patience for stories in which women are rescued by men.
That's what drives science though: trying to find out the way things are, the way they were, and the way it really works. If that is your goal, then you want to make sure that your information is accu...
The elegance under pressure is the result of fearlessness.
God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things.
Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.
Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.