Quote #3991
Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to...
Quote #27369
The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind...
Quote #21647
The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
Quote #21908
There exist only three beings worthy of respect the priest, the soldier, the poet....
Quote #6832
He who praises you for what you lack wishes to take from you what...
Quote #24138
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then...
Quote #7425
In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.
Quote #27921
Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool.
Quote #21025
People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.
Quote #150
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has...