Quote #15685
The good poet sticks to his real loves, to see within the realm of...
Quote #15762
Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
Quote #25579
Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion
Quote #3705
…exaggerated turns of speech conceal mediocre affections: as if the fulness of the soul...
Quote #2407
We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and...
Quote #31659
Nothing ever gets settled in this town. … a seething debating society in which...
Quote #7655
Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing...
Quote #22283
Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it most people aim at...
Quote #15254
He must not laugh at his own wheeze. A snuff box has no right...
Quote #13257
To conceal ignorance is to increase it. An honest confession of it, however, gives...