Accounting Sense

Famous quotes containing the words accounting and/or sense:

“I, who am king of the matter I treat, and who owe an accounting for it to no one, do not for all that believe myself in all I write. I often hazard sallies of my mind which I mistrust.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

“Whenever I go to an opera, I leave my sense and reason at the door with my half guinea, and deliver myself up to my eyes and my ears.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)