If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.

Next quotes

• John Dalberg-Acton:

  I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make

• John Dalberg-Acton:

  Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public dis

• John Dalberg-Acton:

  Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a mora

• John Dalberg-Acton:

  The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not al

• John Dalberg-Acton:

  There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can o

• John Dalberg-Acton:

  A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different tim

• John Dalberg-Acton:

  To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.

• John Dalberg-Acton:

  Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not s

• John Dalberg-Acton:

  The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.

• John Dalberg-Acton:

  Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table o