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Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.
Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.
Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.
Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.
Conversation is an exercise of the mind; gossip is merely an exercise of the tongue.
Conversation is an exercise of the mind; gossip is merely an exercise of the tongue.
Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing.
Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing.
From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.
From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.
Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.
Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.
Conversation is a game of circles.
Conversation is a game of circles.
The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through conscious thoughts.
Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through conscious thoughts.
