Oh, we are ridiculous animals; and if the angels have any fun in them, how we must divert them!

That strange premature genius Chatterton has couched in one line the quintessence of what Voltaire has said in many pages: "Reason, a thorn in Revelation's side.

[King René of Anjou (1409-80)] would not listen to the news of his son having lost the Kingdom of Naples, because he would not bedisturbed when painting a picture of a partridge.

Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school.

Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.

Serendipity... You will understand it better by the derivation than by the definition. I once read a silly fairy tale, called 'The Three Princes of Serendip': as their Highnesses traveled, they were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of.

The curse of modern times is, that almost everything does create controversy.