Quote #6514
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Quote #21814
Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage’s whole existence is...
Quote #8384
To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it...
Quote #20000
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
Quote #27956
The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement...
Quote #27149
The American male at the peak of his physical powers and appetites, driving 160...
Quote #16830
Speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon-balls and to-morrow speak...
Quote #16531
Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of...
Quote #6760
Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.
Quote #8070
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful...