Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.
Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out.
Sydney Smith
A nation grown free in a single day is a child born with the limbs and the vigor of a man, who would take a drawn sword for his rattle, and set the house in a blaze that he might chuckle over the splendor.
His enemies might have said before that he talked rather too much; but now he has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful.
He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.
Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.
G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb
There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.
Do we write books so that they shall merely be read? Don't we also write them for employment in the household? For one that is read from start to finish, thousands are leafed through, other thousands lie motionless, others are jammed against mouseholes, thrown at rats, others are stood on, sat on, drummed on, have gingerbread baked on them or are used to light pipes.
A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing.
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a sign of superiority.
The great rule: If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special.
Good taste is either that which agrees with my taste or that which subjects itself to the rule of reason. From this we can see how useful it is to employ reason in seeking out the laws of taste.
A schoolteacher or professor cannot educate individuals, he educates only species.
Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be re-taught when the students become teachers.
The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.
Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense.
Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.
Some theories are good for nothing except to be argued about.
The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.
People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.
Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.
He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.
The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.
As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly before me in embryo, I would almost like to try to say it all in a single word.
Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.
He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage -- he won't encounter many rivals.
Man loves company, even if it is only that of a smoldering candle.
He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals.
To be content with life -- or to live merrily, rather --all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow.
The fly that does not want to be swatted is safest if it sits on the fly-swat.
Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.
A. J. Liebling
Such as we are made of, such we be.
William Shakespeare
The devil can site scripture for his own purpose! An evil soul producing holy witness is like a villain with a smiling cheek. Merchant Of Venice
The devil has the power to assume a pleasing shape.
That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in. and the best of me is diligence.
Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.
I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream past the wit of man to say what dream it was. Man is but an ass if he go about to expound this dream.
We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life, is rounded with a sleep. The Tempest
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