Quote #19451
Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
Quote #5513
And now, like the old soldier of that ballad, I now close my military...
Quote #28466
Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.
Quote #13798
Conservation is humanity caring for the future.
Quote #118
Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.
Quote #22596
The fates have given mankind a patient soul.
Quote #26409
Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating...
Quote #3793
Heaven goes by favour. If it went by merit, you would stay out and...
Quote #24939
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, in so far as...
Quote #8008
Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.