Impromptu is truly the touch stone of wit.

- Moliere, Less Prieuses -

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The spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty; for it may aim at forcing improvement on an unwilling people.

- J.S.Mill, Liberty -

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Much of a wisdom of one age is folly of the next.

- C Simmons -

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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after.

- Goldsmith -

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Waste not, want not; wilful waste makes woeful want.

- Franklin -

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Bold knaves thrive, without one grain of sense.But good men starve for want of impudence.

- Dryden -

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For be that has but impudence.To all things has a just pretence.

- S.Bytler, Miscellaneous Thoughts -

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The pupil of impulse, it forced him along, His conduct still right, with his argument wrong.

- Goldsmith, Retaliation -

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An idle as a painted shipUpon a painted ocean.

- Coleridge, Ancient Mariner -

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The mightiest powers deepest calms are fed.

- B.W. Proctor -

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Clocks will go on as they are set : but man, irregular man is never constant, never certain.

- Otway -

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No man, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the Kingdom of God.

- Lake, New Testament -

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It is a miserable thing to live in suspence, it is the life of a spider.

- Swift -

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In the end injustice produces independence.

- Voltaire -

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Independence, like honour, is a rocky island without a beach. He travels the fastest who travels alone.

- Kipling, The Winners -

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Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my heart and hand to his vote.

- Daniel Webster -

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I do not know a method of drawing up an indictment against whole nation.

- Edmund Burke -

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Full of sweet indifference.

- R.Buchanant, Chairman -

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It can never beThey will digest this harsh indignity.

- Shakespeare, Love's Labour Lost -

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Literary history and all history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities alone.

- Emerson, Progress of Culture -

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