Quote #19246
Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.
Quote #13650
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
Quote #34277
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us
Quote #30319
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
Quote #21545
I hate the noise and hurry inseparable from great Estates and Titles, and look...
Quote #16913
We know better than we do. We do not yet possess ourselves.
Quote #3444
Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
Quote #31367
Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts–the book of their deeds, the book...
Quote #3075
Any ordinary man can…surround himself with two thousand books…and thenceforward have at least one...
Quote #29082
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.