Quote #7470
I would rather make my name than inherit it.
Quote #12835
The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.
Quote #20897
Anyone who works is a fool. I don’t work – I merely inflict myself...
Quote #6122
A lively, disinterested, persistent looking for truth is extraordinarily rare. Action and faith enslave...
Quote #6642
Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody...
Quote #4191
‘We are always doing’, says he, ‘something for Posterity, but I would fain see...
Quote #13473
No one ever achieved greatness by playing it safe.
Quote #9819
A friend in power is a friend lost.
Quote #9391
The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as...
Quote #1623
Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any...