I have an almost complete disregard of precedent and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.
Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in...
Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion as...
In argument truth always prevails finally in politics falsehood always.
Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry on the other hand...
Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.
We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature.
Music is God's gift to man the only art of Heaven given to earth the only...
The flame of anger bright and brief sharpens the barb of love.
Study is the bane of childhood the oil of youth the indulgence of adulthood...