A good uniform must work its way with the women, sooner or later. Pickwick Papers

The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will. As they say in the United States: "to be different is to be indecent." The mass crushes beneath it everything that is different, everything that is excellent, individual, qualified and select. Anybody who is not like everybody, who does not think like everybody, runs the risk of being eliminated. And it is clear, of course, that this "everybody" is not "everybody." "Everybody" was normally the complex unity of the mass and the divergent, specialised minorities. Nowadays, "everybody" is the mass alone. the Revolt of the Masses

"Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue." The Analects of Confucius

“People who take a long view of their lives and careers always seem to make much better decisions about their time and activities than people who give very little thought to the future.” Eat That Frog!