Quote #3597
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins...
Quote #29332
Take all your dukes and marquesses and earls and viscounts, pack them into one...
Quote #5855
To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
Quote #3735
Nature is earlier than man, but man is earlier than natural science.
Quote #10679
I am in fact a Hobbit, in all but size.
Quote #18864
I ask you to look both ways. For the road to a knowledge of...
Quote #32616
Love truth but pardon error.
Quote #11433
Discretion is knowing how to hide that which we cannot remedy.
Quote #1728
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who...
Quote #17345
That is the true season of love, when we believe that we alone can...