Quote #781
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
Quote #33051
There is no one quite as angry as someone who has just lost a...
Quote #10295
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence...
Quote #7096
Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten...
Quote #21510
That best portion of a good man’s life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts of...
Quote #16310
Our children seem to have wonderful taste, or none – depending, of course, on...
Quote #24386
Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do but...
Quote #13173
The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock,...
Quote #28118
Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually...
Quote #28706
If you don’t ask the right questions, you don’t get the right answers. A...