Quote #10146
Beware the man of one book.
Quote #16677
Where there are no tigers, a wildcat is very self-important.
Quote #20456
Reprimand not a child immediately on the offence. Wait till the irritation has been...
Quote #12153
Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead
Quote #8368
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain...
Quote #14668
Have patience awhile slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time erelong...
Quote #10482
Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole...
Quote #20872
Perhaps better we not obscure the idea that happiness and misery, kindness and greed,...
Quote #12345
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once...
Quote #11065
The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but...