only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.
Voltaire
Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It takes vision and courage to create - it takes faith and courage to prove.
Owen D. Young
Reform is born of need, not pity.
Rebecca Harding Davis
When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
Francois Rabelais
Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
John Burroughs
What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.
A. A. Milne
Voltaire
Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It takes vision and courage to create - it takes faith and courage to prove.
Owen D. Young
Reform is born of need, not pity.
Rebecca Harding Davis
When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
Francois Rabelais
Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
John Burroughs
What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.
A. A. Milne