People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise.
William Somerset Maugham Quotes
It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.
It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set.
Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one’s mind.
You can do anything in this world if you’re prepared to take the consequences.
In the conduct of life we make use of deliberation to justify ourselves in doing what we want to do.
I couldn’t but surmise that the devil, looking at the cruel wars that Christianity has occasioned, the persecutions, the tortures Christian has inflicted on Christian, the unkindness, the hypocrisy, the intolerance, must consider the balance sheet with complacency. And when he remembers that it has laid upon mankind the bitter burden of the sense of […]
Common sense and good nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.
I don’t know why it is that the religious never ascribe common sense to God.
If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
