"Everything has been said, and we have come too late, now that men have been living and thinking for seven thousand ye…" — Jean de La Bruyère

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish

Every child born into the world is a new thought of God, an ever fresh and radiant possibility.

Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one

The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape

Every child born into the world is a new thought of God, an ever-fresh and radiant possibility

Do you think yourself wise? Then there's a donkey inside your waistcoat

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