The force of selfishness is as inevitable and as calculable as the force of gravitation. — George Stillman Hillard Copy Share Image
The malignity that never forgets or forgives is found only in base and ignoble natures, whose aims are selfish, and whose means are indirect, cowardly, and treacherous. — George Stillman Hillard Copy Share Image
Wealth brings noble opportunities, and competence is a proper object of pursuit; but wealth, and even competence, may be bought at too high a… — George Stillman Hillard Copy Share Image
Sunsets in themselves are generally superior to sunrises; but with the sunset we appreciate images drawn from departed peace and faded glory. — George Stillman Hillard Copy Share Image
Many persons feel art, some understand it; but few both feel and understand it. — George Stillman Hillard Copy Share Image
If liberty with law is fire on the hearth, liberty without law is fire on the floor. — George Stillman Hillard Copy Share Image
One might feel indignant at the injustice which deals out what is called fame with so unequal a hand, were it not for the… — George Stillman Hillard Copy Share Image
It may be too much to expect that nations should be governed in their relations towards each other by the precepts of Christian morality,… — George Stillman Hillard Copy Share Image
Strategy is the most important department of the art of war, and strategical skill is the highest and rarest function of military genius. — George Stillman Hillard Copy Share Image
A sluggish, dawdling, and dilatory man may have spasms of activity, but he never acts continuously and consecutively with energetic quickness. — George Stillman Hillard Copy Share Image
A vacant mind invites dangerous inmates, as a deserted mansion tempts wandering outcasts to enter and take up their abode in its desolate apartments. — George Stillman Hillard Copy Share Image
