Quote #28555
The weather-cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken...
Quote #30002
It is in the ordinary duties and labors of life that the Christian can...
Quote #5639
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof,...
Quote #8522
Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast...
Quote #13164
The ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.
Quote #2279
We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs.
Quote #31254
Wise and prudent men — intelligent conservatives — have long known that in a...
Quote #17519
When a man’s knowledge is sufficient to attain, and his virtue is not sufficient...
Quote #27417
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Quote #33163
Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.