"There are follies as catching as contagious..." - Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“What often prevents our abandoning ourselves to a single vice is, our having more than one.”

“Death, like the sun, cannot be looked at steadily.”

“The passions do very often give birth to others of a nature most contrary to their own. Thus avarice sometimes brings forth prodigality, and prodigality avarice; a man's resolution is very often the effect of levity, and his boldness that of cowardice and fear.”

“It is ill-manners to silence a fool and cruelty to let him go on”

“Reason, too late perhaps, may convince you of the folly of misspending time.”

“For can anything be sillier than to insist on carrying a burden one would continually much rather throw to the ground?”

“In this age, in this country, public sentiment is everything. With it, nothing can fail; against it, nothing can succeed. Whoever molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes, or pronounces judicial decisions.”

“I'm an Elvis fan because it was Elvis who really got me out of Liverpool.”

“A journalist is a grumbler, a censurer, a giver of advice, a regent of sovereigns, a tutor of nations. Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.”