Call things by their right names - Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation. — Robert Hall Copy Share Image
Rising health care spending occurs because it is beneficial, not a burden on the economy. — Robert Hall Copy Share Image
Ignorance gives a sort of eternity to prejudice, and perpetuity to error — Robert Hall Copy Share Image
He might be a very clever man by nature for aught I know, but he laid so many books upon his head that his… — Robert Hall Copy Share Image
Call things by their right names - Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a… — Robert Hall Copy Share Image
In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits. — Robert Hall Copy Share Image
Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the… — Robert Hall Copy Share Image
Mankind are apt to be strongly prejudiced in favor of whatever is countenanced by antiquity, enforced by authority, and recommended by custom. — Robert Hall Copy Share Image
We should be more anxious that our afflictions should benefit us than that they should be speedily removed from us. — Robert Hall Copy Share Image
