John Galsworthy

“If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.”

“The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.”

“Justice is a machine that, when someone has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.”

“Essential characteristics of a gentleman: The will to put himself in the place of others; the horror of forcing others into positions from which he would himself recoil; the power to do what seems to him to be right, without considering what others may say or think.”