Quote #583
Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.
Quote #7785
Thou shalt be both the plaintiff and the judge of thine own cause.
Quote #17820
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could...
Quote #13768
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
Quote #13108
When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest...
Quote #25102
We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices...
Quote #17491
Have no friends not equal to yourself.
Quote #17879
In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French I never...
Quote #28570
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world the unreasonable one persists in trying...
Quote #27576
With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.