The Washington herald., 1908-05-10
ittul5fuuIance q Nv beI0Fed q
JESSE W. JAMES.
Died April 5. lss2
BERNARD SHAWIsMs.
From the G. b. :. Calendar, Com
piled by Marian Nixon.

Be good enough TO remember that your
call other people immoral because they
have other habits
The characteristics that make a man
eminent in one class ruin him in another.
If you are a clerk, take care to behave
like a duke.
Greatness IS only one Of the sensations
of littleness.
Self-denial is not a virtue. it is only the
effect Of prudence on rascality.
Are you going 10 spend your life saying
ought, like the rest OF our moraIists
Turn your oughts into shaHs. man.
Goodness, In its popular British sense
OF self-denial, implies that a man IS Vi
eious by nature and that supreme good
ness is supreme marjyrdom. Real good
ness is nothing but the self-induIgence of
good man.
DisobedienCe. the TaTest and most cOura-
geous OF virtues. is seldom distinguished
from neglect the LATEST and commonest
Of vices.
What is all human conduct but the
daily and hourly sale Of our souls fer
trlfies?
An Englishman thinks he is moral when
he Is only uncomfortable
Every true Englishman detegts the Eng
lish. We are the wickedest nation on
earth. and our success is q moral horror.
1t takes an Irishman years OF residence
in England to learn to respect and like a
blockhead. An Englishman win not re-.
spect nor like any one else.
Let not the right side Of your brain
know what the left side doe:h. This IS
the secret OF the Englshmaa's strange
power Of making the best Of both worlds.
No man pretends that his soul finds its
supreme satisfaction In sclf-sacrifcc,
sues an affectation would stamp him as a
coward and a weaklirSg Women who
yean for self-saCTinCe are merely under-
worked
The ideal wife is one who does every
thing that the ideal husbl I'd iikes-and
nothing else
We live in au atmosphere Of shame. We
are ashamed of everything that is real
about us-ashamed Of ourselves, Of our
relations. of our incomes. Of our accents,
Of our opinions. of our experience. The
more things a man IS ashamed of the
more respectable he is.
Do not waste your time on social ques-
tons. What is the matter with the poor
is poverty; what is the matter with the
rich is uselessness.
a modern gentleman is necessarily the
enemy or his country. Even in war ne
does not fight TO defend it. but TO prevent
his power of preying on it from passing
TO q foreigner Such Combatants are pa
triOts in the same sense as two dogs
fighting for a bone are lovers Of animals
He who believes in education. criminal
law, and sport needs only property to
make his g perfect modern gentleman.
Democracy substitutes election by the
incompetent many for appointment by
the corrupt few.
Our plan is TO govern by humbug and
let everybody into the secret. The French
govern by melodrama and give every
body a part in the piece.
A gentleman of our days is one who has
money enough to do what every fool
would do If he could afford it-that is.
consume without producing.
Man gives every reason for his conduct
save oues every excuse for his crime save
one; every plea for his safety save one,
and that is cowardice.
The golden rule is that there is no gold
en- rule.
II you begin by sacrificing yourself to
those you love, you will end by hating
those 20 whom you have sacrificed your
self.