Quotes About Stacy Schiff

For talk is evil: It is light to raise up quite easily, but it is difficult to bear, and hard to put down. No talk is ever entirely gotten rid of, once many people talk it up: It too is some god." —HESIOD

There are people whose defects become them, and others who are ill served by their good qualities. —La Rochefoucauld

The right-minded were those who insisted on colonial liberties. Treason, he held, consisted of the failure to defend those liberties.

Beaumarchais sighed, consumed by his own labors, "politics only rewards success. Best efforts earn only a bitter smile.

Charcot's drawings of convulsing hysterics agree in every detail with the scenes that left Deodat Lawson reeling.