Training in Honesty / by Mark Twain
It’s been one everlasting training and training and training in honesty—honesty shielded, from the very cradle, against every possible temptation, and so it’s artificial honesty, and weak as water when temptation comes, as we have seen this night. God knows I never had shade nor shadow of a doubt of my petrified and indestructible […]
Genius and Beauty / Oscar Wilde
Genius lasts longer than beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves. In the wild struggle for existence, we want something that endures, and so we fill our minds rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place. The thoroughly well-informed man—that is the modern […]
