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• There is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manne
  yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world....
• No one minds what Jeffrey says:... it is not more than a week ago that I heard him speak disrespectfully of the equator.
  -- Sydney Smith (1769-1845) -- Lady Holland's Memoir, Vol. i, p. 17...
• I was never less alone than when by myself. -- Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) -- Memoirs, Vol.
  i, p. 117...
• A President cannot always be popular. -- Harry S. Truman, "Memoirs, Vol. II", 1955
• Authorities are now saying that the war on drugs will be bigger than World War II.
  .. Oh, *great*... more Time-Life books." -- Jay Leno...
• There is something in this more than natural, if philosophy could find it out.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Hamlet -- Act ii, Sc. 2...
• I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.
  -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Speech on the Conciliation of America, Vol. ii, p. 136...
• We cultivate literature on a little oatmeal. -- Sydney Smith (1769-1845) -- Lady Holland's Memoir, Vol.
  i, p. 23...
• I saw and loved. -- Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) -- Memoirs, Vol. i, p. 106