Quotes from Maurice Baring

If you would know what the Lord God thinks of money you have only to look at those to whom he gives it.

Avoid contradicting in general, especially people you love.

In Mozart and Salieri we see the contrast between the genius which does what it must and the talent which does what it can.

Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.

There is a vast difference between games and play. Play is played for fun, but games are deadly serious and you do not play them to enjoy yourself.

Whoever one is, and wherever one is, one is always in the wrong if one is rude.

Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.

Totul trece, de fapt, atât de repede È™i, pe m?sur? ce înaint?m în vârst?, descoperim c? toate au o importan?? mult mai mic? decât consideram noi la început... iar la cap?t, È™tim c? ne aÈ™teapt? odihna È™i somnul, È™i nimeni nu ne va deÈ™tepta.

Pedepsele nu sunt împ?rÈ›ite muritorilor de o guvernan?? ar??goas? sau de un dasc?l despotic; nu, pedeapsa e rezultatul logic, consecin?? inevitabil? a faptei rele.

what I feel with regard to our Mass, for instance, is the exact opposite of what you think you would be bound to feel. I feel at Mass as if I were breathing the kind of air you breathe on the mountains in spring, or in a wood, or in the fields at dawn on a spring day; something where the freshness is fresh beyond all sweetness: it is more than sweetness, it is simply fresh--unspeakably fresh . . . that is all, and that is enough. . . .