Three things are to be looked to in a building: that it stand on the right spot; that it is securely founded; that it be successfully executed.
Praise your children openly, reprove them secretly.
What! All this for a song?
England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.
Soldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer.
Win hearts, and you have all men's hands and purses.
A man can buy nothing in the market with gentility.
Tradition is a very powerful force.
Of course I wanted an agent from the time I was like 5, but my mother was like, 'No, you're going to be normal, you're going to go to school, you're going to get good grades, you're going to play soccer, and if you do well, if you keep your grades up, you can do one community-theater show a year'.
Nature has different times.
I think wealthy conservatives are busy investing in profit and job creation and enterprise, and wealthy liberals, many of them either from the media industry themselves or from - they recognize the value of communications and are more ready to put money into a less profitable enterprise, namely the media.