Quote #26007
Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills...
Quote #21042
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no...
Quote #11375
Break the leg of a bad habit.
Quote #34872
The number of guests at dinner should not be less than the number of...
Quote #21353
The thin and precarious crust of decency is all that separates any civilization, however...
Quote #17949
Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
Quote #16946
In England every man you meet is some man’s son in America, he may...
Quote #22170
I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe...
Quote #11105
Pathos, piety, courage, ? they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything...
Quote #10149
Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed:...