We have it in our power to begin the world over again.

We have it in our power to begin the world over again.

A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.

A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.

The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better--it is just turning around as usual.

The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better--it is just turning around as usual.

God is the author, men are only the players. These grand pieces
which are played upon earth have been read more

God is the author, men are only the players. These grand pieces
which are played upon earth have been composed in heaven.
[Fr., Dieu est le poete, les hommes ne sont que les acteurs. Ces
grandes pieces qui se jouent sur la terre ont ete composees dans
le ciel.]

The worst-tempered people I've ever met were people who knew they were wrong.

The worst-tempered people I've ever met were people who knew they were wrong.

'Tis a very good world we live in
To spend, and to lend, and to give in;
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'Tis a very good world we live in
To spend, and to lend, and to give in;
But to beg, or to borrow, or ask for our own;
'Tis the very worst world that ever was known.

Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the read more

Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.

Physicists and astronomers see their own implications in the world being round, but to me it means that only one-third read more

Physicists and astronomers see their own implications in the world being round, but to me it means that only one-third of the world is asleep at any given time and the other two-thirds is up to something.

Men lose their tempers in defending their taste.

Men lose their tempers in defending their taste.