Hugh Casson Quotes

“The British love permanence more than they love beauty.”

“Net - the biggest word in the language of business.”

“A leader must face danger. He must take the risk and the blame and the brunt of the storm.”

“If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor — poor in happiness, poor in all that makes life worth living.”

“The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient.”

“Allan praised Herbert for a job well done and for acting the part well. Herbert blushed, while dismissing the praise, saying it wasn't hard to play stupid when you are stupid. Allan said that he didn't know how hard it was, because the idiots Allan had met so far in his life had all tried to do the opposite.”

“In the future I see open fields for more important researches. Psychology will be securely based on the foundation already laid by Mr. Herbert Spencer, that of the necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacity by graduation.”

“Be calm in arguing: for fierceness makes Error a fault, and truth discourtesy.”

“I will complain, yet praise;I will bewail, approve:And all my sowre-sweet dayesI will lament, and love.”

“Man is no star, but a quick coalOf mortal fire:Who blows it not, nor doth controlA faint desire,”