Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection,—these are love's pretty ingredients for a kiss.—Bovée.
Knavery.—Unluckily the credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves. They never give people possession; but they always keep them in hope.—Burke.
After long experience in the world I affirm, before God, I never knew a rogue who was not unhappy.—Junius.
By fools knaves fatten; by bigots priests are well clothed; every knave finds a gull.—Zimmerman.
Knowledge.—The sure foundations of the state are laid in knowledge, not in ignorance; and every sneer at education, at culture, at book learning, which is the recorded wisdom of the experience of mankind, is the demagogue's sneer at intelligent liberty, inviting national degeneracy and ruin.—G. W. Curtis.
Knowledge, like religion, must be "experienced," in order to be known.—Whipple.
The pleasure and delight of knowledge far surpasseth all other in nature. We see in all other pleasures there is satiety; and after they be used, their verdure departeth, which showeth well that they be but deceits of pleasure, and not pleasures; and that it was the novelty which pleased, not the quality; and therefore we see that voluptuous men turn friars, and ambitious princes turn melancholy. But of knowledge there is no satiety, but satisfaction and appetite are perpetually interchangeable.—Bacon.
What novelty is worth the sweet monotony where everything is known, and loved because it is known?—George Eliot.
The truth is, that most men want knowledge, not for itself, but for the superiority which knowledge confers; and the means they employ to secure this superiority are as wrong as the ultimate object, for no man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.—Sydney Smith.