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 | "We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of
its periodic fits of morality." | |
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Found in the topic Morality.
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| "By poetry we mean the art of employing words in such a manner as to
produce an illusion on the imagination; the art of doing by means of
words, what the painter does by means of colors." | |
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Found in the topic Poetry.
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| "The sweeter sound of woman"s praise." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "The object of oratory is not truth but persuasion." | |
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Found in the topic Persuasion.
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| "The measure of a man"s real character is what he would do if he knew
he would never be found out." | |
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Found in the topic Character.
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| "The essence of war is violence." | |
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Found in the topic War.
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| "Cunning is the natural and universal defense of the weak Against the
violence of the strong." | |
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Found in the topic Cunning.
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| "Nothing is so useless as a general maxim." | |
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Found in the topic Nothing.
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| "The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to
make men good reasoners." | |
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Found in the topic Logic.
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| "Ye diners-out from whom we guard our spoons." | |
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Found in the topic Guest.
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| "It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it." | |
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Found in the topic Flattery.
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| "Free trade, one of the greatest blessings which a government can
confer on a people, is in almost every country unpopular." | |
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Found in the topic Trade.
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| "Many politicians lay it down as a self-evident proposition that no
people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim
is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the
water till he had learned to swim." | |
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Found in the topic Freedom.
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| "We see no reason for thinking that the opinions of the magistrate on
speculative questions are more likely to be right than those of any other
man. None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular
election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth, affords, as
far as we can perceive, much security for his being wiser than any of his
neighbors. The chance of his being wiser than all his neighbors together
is still smaller." | |
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Found in the topic Judge.
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| "The conformation of his mind was such that whatever was little
seemed to him great, and whatever was great seemed to him little." | |
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Found in the topic Exaggeration.
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| "A man possessed of splendid talents, which he often abused, and of a
sound judgment, the admonitions of which he often neglected; a man who
succeeded only in an inferior department of his art, but who in that
department succeeded pre-eminently." | |
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Found in the topic Talent.
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| "From the poetry of Lord Byron they drew a system of ethics
compounded of misanthropy and voluptuousness,?a system in which the two
great commandments were to hate your neighbour and to love your
neighbour"s wife." | |
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Found in the topic Commandments.
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| "An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia." | |
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Found in the topic Home.
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