Quote #15472
Some people are so fond of ill-luck that they run half-way to meet it.
Quote #3406
Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions,...
Quote #27772
When it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change.
Quote #6531
Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force! Like fire, it...
Quote #34618
The history of the Victorian Age will never be written we know too much...
Quote #31671
An educated man … is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries...
Quote #18062
The hatred we bear our enemies injures their happiness less than our own.
Quote #4322
Rash indeed is he who reckons on the morrow, or haply on days beyond...
Quote #10664
The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits
Quote #3614
An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one...