Quote #1793
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no...
Quote #30333
Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces obstinacy, it sharpens the sense of...
Quote #17634
In soft regions are born soft men.
Quote #26235
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds and...
Quote #23965
I hold it true,what’er befallI feel it, when I sorrow most’Tis better to have...
Quote #25713
Mistakes live in the neighbourhood of truth and therefore delude us.
Quote #26180
I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate...
Quote #27478
Any child can tell you that the sole purpose of a middle name is...
Quote #23113
Don’t think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that...
Quote #224
The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and...