And now, a few words from . . . Erica Jong

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.

And now, a few words from . . . P. D. James

If from infancy you treat children as gods, they are liable in adulthood to act as devils.

And now, a few words from . . . Samuel Johnson

If we estimate dignity by immediate usefulness, agriculture is undoubtedly the first and noblest science.

A now, a few words from . . . Samuel Johnson

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life.

And now, a few words from . . . Samuel Johnson

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thought.

And now, a few words from . . . Samuel Johnson

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

And now, a few words from . . . Thomas Jefferson

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

And now, a few words from . . . Thomas Jefferson

I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.

And now, a few words from . . . Samuel Johnson

No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.