I never wonder to see men wicked but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
Jonathan Swift
It was prettily devised of Aesop "The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said what dust do I raise! "
Francis Bacon
He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.
Carl Sandburg
The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me, my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.
Blaise Pascal
Cruelty like every other vice requires no motive outside of itself, it only requires opportunity.
George Eliot
Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young he may be sure that they think he is growing old.
Victor Hugo
A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art poems schools theology displacing all that exists or that has been produced anywhere in the past under opposite influences.
Walt Whitman
