John Mason Brown Quotes

Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace.

I am as content to die for God’s eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.

The more one has seen of the good, the more one asks for the better.

Some television programs are so much chewing gum for the eyes.

The more I observed Washington, the more frequently I visited it, and the more people I interviewed there, the more I understood how prophetic L’Enfant was when he laid it out as a city that goes around in circles.

Reasoning with a child is fine, if you can reach the child’s reason without destroying your own.

No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.

The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

So often we rob tomorrow’s memories by today’s economies.