Adrien Wing Quotes

It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it.

Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.