Quote #988
People love high ideals, but they got to be about 33-percent plausible.
Quote #13703
That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.
Quote #160
When a dog bites a man that is not news, but when a man...
Quote #27865
As the kindled fire consumes the fuel, so in the flame of wisdom the...
Quote #6045
He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it – namely,...
Quote #19198
Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice.
Quote #7129
So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible, though ultimately valuable that...
Quote #8307
For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be...
Quote #5611
People find life entirely too time-consuming.
Quote #20600
Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne, They rise, they break, and to...