Quote #1993
What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
Quote #19068
If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.
Quote #24521
Many count their chickens before they are hatched and where they expect bacon, meet...
Quote #21701
He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of...
Quote #31891
Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm,...
Quote #10686
For though I do not ask for aid, we need it.
Quote #384
Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation.
Quote #1483
At my age the bones are water in the morning until food is given...
Quote #22426
Children are a poor man’s wealth.
Quote #11676
He who does not hope to win has already lost.