Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 204
“A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.”
“The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.”
“Socialism is founded on a lie -- the premise that man knows more than he in fact does know.”
Leonard Read Journals, September 18, 1959 https://history.fee.org/leonard-read-journal/1959/leonard-e-read-journal-september-1959
“A skillful Artist in shapes and appearances does no more than necessary to create His effect.”
Job: A Comedy of Justice (1984)
Context: Time is never a problem on the God level. Or space. Whatever needed to deceive you was provided. But no more than that. That is the conservative principle in art at the God level. While I can't do it, not being at that level, I have seen a lot of it done. A skillful Artist in shapes and appearances does no more than necessary to create His effect.
“Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath.”
Diogenes Laërtius (trans. C. D. Yonge) The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (1853), "Solon", sect. 12, p. 29.
volume I, "Introduction", page 3 http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=16&itemID=F937.1&viewtype=image
Source: The Descent of Man (1871)
Context: It has often and confidently been asserted, that man's origin can never be known: but ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
Address at Burlington College, reported in Horace Mann, The Common School Journal (1847), p. 191.
