"The Battle of the Books" Quotes

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.

Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.

Books, the children of the brain.

For every one who hates falsehood, there are a thousand who hate the truth.

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.

It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

Curiosity is the thirst of the soul.

A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.