“In tranquility one recollects them with affection, their instinct is good, crazy family good.”

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Source: For One More Day

Source: Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language (1969), P. 152.

Girl, Interrupted (1994)

Source: The White Peacock

Preface.
Source: Lyrical Ballads (1798–1800)

Statement about Richard Nixon, as quoted in an article by Joe Sharkey in The New York Times (12 March 2000)

Source: Influencing men in business, 1911, p. 133
Context: Goods offered as means of gaining social prestige make their appeals to one of the most profound of the human instincts. In monarchies this instinct is regarded as a mere tendency to imitate royalty. In America, with no such excuse, the eagerness with which we attempt to secure merchandise used by the "swell and swagger" is absurd, but it makes it possible for the advertiser to secure more responses than might otherwise be possible.. As an illustration of this fact we need but to look at the successful advertisements of clothing, automobiles, etc. The quality of the goods themselves does not seem to be so important as the apparent prestige given by the possession of the goods.

As A Man Thinketh (1902), Serenity
Context: The calm man, having learned how to govern himself, knows how to adapt himself to others; and they, in turn, reverence his spiritual strength, and feel that they can learn of him and rely upon him. The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good.