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Byron owed the vast influence which he exercised over his contemporaries at least as much to his gloomy egotism as to the real power of his poetry (Which Quotes)
There is always a pleasure in unravelling a mystery, in catching at the gossamer clue which will guide to certainty (Which Quotes)
A great deal of capital, which appears today in the United States without any certificate of birth, was yesterday, in England, the capitalised blood of children (Which Quotes)
This is the highest miracle of genius, that things which are not should be as though they were, that the imaginations of one mind should become the personal recollections of another (Which Quotes)
Nor is it the irrationality of the form which is taken as characteristic. On the contrary, one overlooks the irrational (Which Quotes)
Scotland by no means escaped the fate ordained for every country which is connected, but not incorporated, with another country of greater resources (Which Quotes)
Of all faults the one she most despised in others was the want of bravery; the meanness of heart which leads to untruth (Which Quotes)
The passages in which Milton has alluded to his own circumstances are perhaps read more frequently, and with more interest, than any other lines in his poems (Which Quotes)
In the modern languages there was not, six hundred years ago, a single volume which is now read. The library of our profound scholar must have consisted entirely of Latin books (Which Quotes)
A tact which surpassed the tact of her sex as much as the tact of her sex surpasses the tact of ours (Which Quotes)
Grief, which disposes gentle natures to retirement, to inaction, and to meditation, only makes restless spirits more restless (Which Quotes)
The ascendency of the sacerdotal order was long the ascendency which naturally and properly belonged to intellectual superiority (Which Quotes)
Capital is dead labor, which, vampire like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks (Which Quotes)
Great minds do indeed react on the society which has made them what they are; but they only pay with interest what they have received (Which Quotes)
bid her beware of French principles, which had led the French to cut off their king's and queen's heads (Which Quotes)
Men of great conversational powers almost universally practise a sort of lively sophistry and exaggeration which deceives for the moment both themselves and their auditors (Which Quotes)
In after life you may have friends fond, dear friends; but never will you have again the inexpressible love and gentleness lavished upon you which none but a mother bestows (Which Quotes)
Those who seem to load the public taste are, in general, merely outrunning it in the direction which it is spontaneously pursuing (Which Quotes)
There are countries in which it would be as absurd to establish popular governments as to abolish all the restraints in a school or to unite all the strait waistcoats in a madhouse (Which Quotes)
There is no country in Europe which is so easy to over run as Spain; there is no country which it is more difficult to conquer (Which Quotes)
Society does not consist of individuals; it expresses the sum of connections and relationships in which individuals find themselves (Which Quotes)
We deplore the outrages which accompany revolutions. But the more violent the outrages, the more assured we feel that a revolution was necessary (Which Quotes)
Constant labor of one uniform kind destroys the intensity and flow of a man's animal spirits, which find recreation and delight in mere change of activity (Which Quotes)
Our estimate of a character always depends much on the manner in which that character affects our own interests and passions (Which Quotes)
It is good to be often reminded of the inconsistency of human nature, and to learn to look without wonder or disgust on the weaknesses which are found in the strongest minds (Which Quotes)
What proposition is there respecting human nature which is absolutely and universally true? We know of only one, and that is not only true, but identical, that men always act from self interest (Which Quotes)
The perfect disinterestedness and self devotion of which men seem incapable, but which is sometimes found in women (Which Quotes)
I am greatly pleased with the public, authentic isolation in which we two, you and I, now find ourselves. It is wholly in accord with our attitude and our principles (Which Quotes)
It is well known how the monks wrote silly lives of Catholic Saints over the manuscripts on which the classical works of ancient heathendom had been written (Which Quotes)
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it (Which Quotes)