The country will also need 'new forms of social welfare' instead of its current system which is excessively centred on pensions.
They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.
The silver ore of pure charity is an expensive article in the catalogue of a man's good qualities.
No scandal about Queen Elizabeth, I hope?
There are a set of malicious, prating, prudent gossips, both male and female, who murder characters to kill time; and will rob a young fellow of his good name before he has years to know the value of it.
I ne'er could any lustre see In eyes that would not look on me; I ne'er saw nectar on a lip But where my own did hope to sip.
Satires and lampoons on particular people circulate more by giving copies in confidence to the friends of the parties, than by printing them.
The true motives of our actions, like the real pipes of an organ, are usually concealed; but the gilded and hollow pretext is pompously placed in the front for show.
I sleep in the nude but I pull the sheets up.
The Orient and Islam have a kind of extrareal, phenomenologically reduced status that puts them out of reach of everyone except the Western expert. From the beginning of Western speculation about the Orient, the one thing th orient could not do was to represent itself. Evidence of the Orient was credible only after it had passed through and been made firm by the refining fire of the Orientalist’s work.
Flyers have a sense of adventures yet to come, instead of dimly recalling adventures of long ago as the only moments in which they truly lived.