Michael Robertson

“He had not a handsome face, but it was better than handsome: being extremely amiable and cheerful.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“You can't win an argument. You can't because if you lose it, you lose it; and if you win it, you lose it.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People

“He used to say that there were only two sources of human vice: idleness and superstition; and that there were only two virtues: activity and intelligence.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“And it never enters anyone’s head that the recognition of a greatness not measurable by the measure of good and bad is only a recognition of one’s own insignificance and immeasurable littleness. For us, with the measures of good and bad given us by Christ, nothing is immeasurable. And there is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness, and truth.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace