Quote #17889
The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts...
Quote #21173
When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power...
Quote #29223
We are no other than a moving row Of Magic Shadow-shapes that come and...
Quote #10944
For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be...
Quote #31889
Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.
Quote #33439
Adversity does teach who your real friends are.
Quote #768
No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are...
Quote #22701
To endure is greater than to dare to tire out hostile fortune to be...
Quote #31514
History’s lessons are no more enlightening than the wisdom of those who interpret them.
Quote #9475
Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we...