Quote #7713
Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.
Quote #7727
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our...
Quote #7543
The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures...
Quote #16217
Not to be cheered by praise, Not to be grieved by blame, But to...
Quote #9599
It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be,...
Quote #5882
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from...
Quote #4678
Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if...
Quote #1916
Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer...
Quote #6596
We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know...
Quote #15516
No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there I shake the world...