18 Quotes by John Philpot Curran

Madame de Stael talks herself into a beauty.

The first inventions of commerce are, like those of all other arts, cunning and short-sighted.

But as in wailing there's nought availing, And Death unfailing will strike the blow, Then for that reason, and for a season, Let us be merry before we go.

Evil prospers when good men do nothing.

It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become prey to the active. The conditions upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime, and the punishment of his guilt.

When I can’t talk sense, I talk metaphor.

In times of change, learners shall inherit the earth, while the learned are beautifully equipped for a world that no longer exists.

But as in wailing there’s nought availing, And Death unfailing will strike the blow, Then for that reason, and for a season, Let us be merry before we go.

The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.