Quote #2692
The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because...
Quote #3080
Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to...
Quote #26706
From the way Denny’s shaking his head, he’s either got an injured shoulder or...
Quote #18277
They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a...
Quote #30117
Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not...
Quote #24450
How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we...
Quote #27895
Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one...
Quote #23078
To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.
Quote #22113
The way to become boring is to say everything.
Quote #33660
The freedom of poetic license.