Quote #8998
How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire!
Quote #12833
History knows no resting places and no plateaus.
Quote #19821
Knowledge and timber shouldn’t be much used till they are seasoned.
Quote #12266
Dost thou love life? Than do not squander time, for it is the stuff...
Quote #17478
By three methods we may learn wisdom First, by reflection, which is noblest Second,...
Quote #21303
The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear...
Quote #27632
The historian must have some conceptions of how men who are not historians behave.
Quote #8402
It is a brave act of valor to condemn death, but where life is...
Quote #27596
We heed no instincts but our own.
Quote #15141
The innocence of the intention abates nothing of the mischief of the example.