I declare,… a man who wishes to make his way in life could do nothing better than go through the world with a boiling tea-kettle in his hand. – Sydney Smith, quoted in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith: Volume I by his d
I am prisoner of a gaudy and unlivable present, where all forms of human society have reached an extreme of their cycle and there is no imagining what new forms they may assume. – Italo Calvino
Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments. – Andrew Jackson