Quote #768
No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are...
Quote #4246
Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security.
Quote #9021
The best way to live is by not knowing what will happen to you...
Quote #34155
…probably the greatest concentration of talent and genius in this house except for perhaps...
Quote #6624
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist...
Quote #15626
We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult,...
Quote #33941
If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows....
Quote #13555
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
Quote #5639
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof,...
Quote #7248
You (God) have not only commanded continence, that is, from what things we are...