James Boswell

He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.

A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself.

I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything.

Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?

I am happy to the spokeswoman for this French youth that tomorrow will be spearhead new hope in the shape of the National Front.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.