It is impossible that the whisper of a faction should prevail against the voice of a nation.

Among the defects of the bill [Lord Derby's] which are numerous, one provision is conspicuous by its presence and another by its absence.

I cannot think of a greater blessing than to die in one's own bed, without warning or discomfort, on the last page of a new book that we most wanted to read.

Writer is always alone. But every author is a creator, and gods are lonely.

Whoever is not in his coffin and the dark grave let him know he has enough.

The map is not the territory, but you can't fold up the territory and put it in the glove compartment.

The notion that we can control the flow of information is obsolete.

He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of most medicines.

Melodies die out, like the pipe of Pan, with the ears that love them and listen for them.

A biography should be a dissection and demonstration of how a particular human being was made and worked.

One, if by land, and two, if by sea; And I on the opposite shore will be, Ready to ride and spread the alarm Through every Middlesex village and farm For the country folk to be up and to arm.

In a laissez-faire society, there could exist no public institution with the power to forcefully protect people from themselves. From other people (criminals), yes. From one's own self, no.

With great victory comes great sacrifice.