John

“′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
― Mark Twain

“All government is representative government until it begins to decay. Unfortunately (as is also evident) all government begins to decay the instant it begins to actually govern. (From "A Miscellany of Men")”
― Chesterton, G. K.

“I am saddened by the modern system of advertising. Whatever evidence it offers of enterprise, ingenuity, impudence, and resource in certain individuals, it proves to my mind the wide prevalence of that form of mental degradation which is called gullibility. [An anarchist]”
― Joseph Conrad, A Set of Six

“A stale article, if you did it in a good, warm, sunny smile will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables