He was not oppressed by a crowd because in the midst of all the hullabaloo he always found a quiet place for his soul.

They could not understand the advantage of living contrary to their inclinations in this world in order to enjoy a hypothetical well-being in another.

Nations should be governed by a council of learned men who must answer to the people for their actions.

Toward the end of February 1954, James Beard was at work in his Greenwich Village kitchen doing what he most loved to do: cooking delicious meals.

There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.

When any of the four pillars of government-religion, justice, counsel, and treasure-are mainly shaken or weakened, men had need to pray for fair weather.

I listen to Radio 4 all the time. I didn't go to university, so that's my further education.

The destructive power of a lie is stronger than the truth.

For profits think, "We've got to find that finest talent available, pay them what they're worth, and put them into their daily solutions. " Apply the Who to the What.

Being a writer in a library is rather like being a eunuch in a harem.

People get ready...Jesus is coming!

Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins

We hold that no person or set of persons can properly establish a standard of expression for others.