Quote #3339
During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we...
Quote #15986
Most people pay too much for the things they get for nothing.
Quote #12651
Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time...
Quote #21279
In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men the...
Quote #17504
The determined scholar and the man of virtue will not seek to live at...
Quote #24223
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called...
Quote #15392
Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the...
Quote #6514
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Quote #33451
If power was an illusion, wasn’t weakness necessarily one also
Quote #19704
Be civil to all sociable to many familiar with few friend to one enemy...