“To me,' said Mr. Herbert, 'it seems rather that the only hope for the present age lies in the possibility of some individual wiser than the rest getting the necessary power, and in the most arbitrary way possible putting a… — William Hurrell Mallock Copy Share Image
Civilisation is never so charming as when it is an island in the middle of simplicity, or of a civilisation of an alien kind. — William Hurrell Mallock Copy Share Image
“Most of man's finest heroism is merely disguised necessity.” — William Hurrell Mallock Copy Share Image
The landscape of the mind, against which our thoughts and expectations move, when the wind of the imagination is active, changes as quickly as… — William Hurrell Mallock Copy Share Image
Politics are always a struggle for power, disguised and modified by prudence, reason and moral pretext. — William Hurrell Mallock Copy Share Image
Socialism may be worthless as a scheme, but it is not meaningless as a symptom. Rousseau's theory of the origin of society, of the… — William Hurrell Mallock Copy Share Image
“To me,' said Mr. Herbert, 'it seems rather that the only hope for the present age lies in the possibility of some individual wiser… — William Hurrell Mallock Copy Share Image
No one is fit to encounter an adversary's case successfully unless he can make it for a moment his own, unless he can put… — William Hurrell Mallock Copy Share Image
Landscapes, even when their general type is similar, are capable of as many expressions as the same type of human face, and, without our… — William Hurrell Mallock Copy Share Image
“But will you be able to say what is right and what is wrong any longer, if you don’t know for whom anything is… — William Hurrell Mallock Copy Share Image
If a man wishes to ensure the bad opinion of others, his best course probably is to be honest about himself. — William Hurrell Mallock Copy Share Image
“Was my guide a person who would expect what is vulgary called a "tip"? Or was his position so high that even to offer… — William Hurrell Mallock Copy Share Image
“Some will be always strong, and some will be always weak; and though, if there is no God, no divine and fatherly source of… — William Hurrell Mallock Copy Share Image
“And with distance in time it is the same as with distance in place. The imagination has its atmosphere and its sunlight as well… — William Hurrell Mallock Copy Share Image
“Literature, I have always thought, is in most places and companies a singularly dull and uninteresting thing to talk about, but one may, as… — William Hurrell Mallock Copy Share Image
