Kari Hohne

When you place yourself in a position to help another, you will discover your greater capabilities.

To know fulfillment, nourish what is for the belly and not the eye.

Judged by every standard which history has applied to Governments, the Soviet Government of Russia is one of the worst tyrannies that has ever existed in the world. It accords no political rights. It rules by terror. It punishes political opinions. It suppresses free speech. It tolerates no newspapers but its own. It persecutes Christianity with a zeal and a cunning never equalled since the times of the Roman Emperors. It is engaged at this moment in trampling down the peoples of Georgia and executing their leaders by hundreds.

Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.

Really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great.

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.

Sir, he throws away his money without thought and without merit. I do not call a tree generous that sheds its fruit at every breeze.

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

The universe is wider than our views of it.

Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.

The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

It took me twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public.