Quote #29980
I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade.
Quote #25142
One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it unless...
Quote #17729
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
Quote #30154
You can’t trust a promise someone makes while they’re drunk, in love, hungry, or...
Quote #16505
The most decisive actions of our life — I mean those that are most...
Quote #1355
She did not talk to people as if they were strange hard shells she...
Quote #30812
The wise man speaks of what he sees, the idiot of what he hears.
Quote #18626
This great misfortune – to be incapable of solitude.
Quote #17643
This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power.
Quote #12200
So long as faith with freedom reigns And loyal hope survives, And gracious charity...