Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization wou...
Everything took on the color of blood.
Folly is a child of power.
Everything one has a right to do is not best to be done. Benjamin Franklin
Society's revenge matched its fright.
In a dependent relationship, the protégé can always control the protector by threatening to collapse.
Irritability was an occupational disease. Intolerant and intolerable belong in the same category.
Without a country, you are the basket of humanity.
No one dared tell the outcome of the battle to Philip VI until his jester was thrust forward and said, Oh, the cowardly English, the cowardly English! and on being asked why, replied, They did not jum...
The limitation prompting folly was an attitude of superiority so dense as to be impenetrable.
Little attention was paid, because the German people, no matter how hungry, remained obedient.
Isolation might be more hazardous than splendor.
He had become, through a combination of heritage and character, a keeper of the national conscience.
Even the respectable have a small anarchist hidden on the inside.
That he survived, and indeed returned to government, was one of man's occasional triumphs over medicine.
If it was bliss to be alive, to hunt was rapture.
They resented the patronage they depended upon.
When a pope's election could not be explained rationally, it was attributed to the Holy Ghost.
Revolutions produce other men, not new men. Halfway between truth and endless error, the mold of the species is permanent. That is Earth's burden.
House Speaker Thomas Reed could destroy an argument or expose a fallacy in fewer words than anyone else. His language was vivid and picturesque. He had a way of phrasing things which was peculiarly ap...