What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil..., or there is no existence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I like his holiness very much, particularly since an order, which I understand he has lately given, that no more miracles shall be... performed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I can never get people to understand that poetry is the expression of excited passion, and that there is no such thing as a life o...f passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever. Besides, who would ever shave themselves in such a state?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A bargain is in its very essence a hostile transaction ... do not all men try to abate the price of all they buy? I contend that a... bargain even between brethren is a declaration of war.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Are we aware of our obligations to a mob? It is the mob that labour in your fields and serve in your houses--that man your navy, a...nd recruit your army--that have enabled you to defy the world, and can also defy you when neglect and calamity have driven them to despair. You may call the people a mob; but do not forget that a mob too often speaks the sentiments of the people.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What makes a regiment of soldiers a more noble object of view than the same mass of mob? Their arms, their dresses, their banners,... and the art and artificial symmetry of their position and movements.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »