Quote #11353
Before all else, we seek, upon our common labor as a nation, the blessings...
Quote #12482
I think it is good that books still exist, but they make me sleepy.
Quote #31351
Faced by the mountainous heap of the minutiae of knowledge and awed by the...
Quote #8359
There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight; there...
Quote #2608
I know not, sir whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he...
Quote #19523
So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject...
Quote #1413
I am never afraid of what I know.
Quote #3176
He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail...
Quote #24488
He has an oar in every man’s boat, and a finger in every pie.
Quote #16188
If people did not prefer reaping to sowing, there would not be a hungry...