The hare-brained chatter of irresponsible frivolity.
Ignorance never settles a question.
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
It is knowledge that influences and equalizes the social condition of man; that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are in common, and enjoyments which are universal.
The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
When we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, an opening quotation is a symphony preluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize.
Grief is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
Change is inevitable. In a progressive country change is constant.
A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.