Quote #6871
Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike...
Quote #6845
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it...
Quote #7593
The proposition that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties is...
Quote #11040
To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.
Quote #12354
was very patriotic. That is, it talked about killing foreigners.
Quote #17376
Character develops itself in the stream of life.
Quote #16806
Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
Quote #19668
But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and...
Quote #27360
Nature is God’s greatest evangelist.
Quote #30628
Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.