Quotes
Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
Under every stone lurks a politician.
These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without them.
The wise learn many things from their enemies.
Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.
By words the mind is winged.
Who seems most hideous when adorned the most.
When the devil grows old he turns hermit.
We soon believe the things we would believe.
They think they have God Almighty by the toe.
Such fire was not by water to be drowned, nor he his nature changed by changing ground.
Still more plain the Tutor, the grave man, nicknamed Adam, White-tied, clerical, silent, with antique square-cut waistcoat, Formal, unchanged, of black cloth, but with sense and feeling beneath it.
Nature made him, and then broke the mold.
Man proposes, and God disposes.
From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me.
For rarely man escapes his destiny.
But that he wrought so high the specious tale, as manifested plainly 'twas a lie.
Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.