Quote #2675
…it is as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you...
Quote #25541
Thought itself needs words. It runs on them like a long wire. And if...
Quote #3265
Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant.
Quote #20736
To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune to lose...
Quote #17007
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no...
Quote #4393
This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past.
Quote #25356
Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person.
Quote #14331
War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.
Quote #29971
Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in...
Quote #11750
Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.