Adam Cuninghame

“that's what everybody wants, just a little more money, even the people who have it.”
― Nella Larsen, Passing

“One comes into this world, to enjoy what is beautiful and what is good, and to do as one pleases, when the things one wants to do are noble, intelligent and generous. An education which does not cultivate the will, is an education that depraves the mind. It is a teacher's duty to teach the pupil how to will.”
― Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

“Of so little weight are the greatest services to princes, when put into the balance with a refusal to gratify their passions.”
― Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels

“Anyone who says that our worst behaviors are inevitable knows too little about primates, including us.”
― Robert M. Sapolsky, Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst