Quote #8714
Adversity cause some men to break others to break records.
Quote #13228
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
Quote #8549
The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and perturbations to...
Quote #11730
Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating...
Quote #18481
Let a man strive to purify his thoughts. What a man thinketh, that is...
Quote #13291
Take care, your worship, those things over there are not giants but windmills.
Quote #4177
When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
Quote #20900
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with,...
Quote #2688
It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines...
Quote #18791
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.