Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.

Quote by Thomas Carlyle

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There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary...

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary...

A force as of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was...

A force as of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was...

The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.

The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.

Work is the grand cure for all maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind -...

Work is the grand cure for all maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind -...

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to...

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to...

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of...

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of...

No pressure, no diamonds.

No pressure, no diamonds.

Experience is the best of schoolmasters, only the school fees are heavy

Experience is the best of schoolmasters, only the school fees are heavy

That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call...

That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call...

For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to...

For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to...

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with...

What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with...

Silence is more eloquent than words

Silence is more eloquent than words

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

Everywhere in life the true question is, not what we have gained, but what we...

Everywhere in life the true question is, not what we have gained, but what we...

That a parliament, especially a Parliament with Newspaper Reporters firmly established in it, is an...

That a parliament, especially a Parliament with Newspaper Reporters firmly established in it, is an...

A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.

A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow...

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow...

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.

If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.