Quote #18213
Hope for miracles, but don’t rely on one.
Quote #33486
For the sword outwears its sheath, And the soul wears out the breast, And...
Quote #19492
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted...
Quote #8296
Take death for example. A great deal of our effort goes into avoiding it....
Quote #14410
The weather-cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken...
Quote #25019
Threats don’t work with the person who’s got nothing to lose.
Quote #14457
There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the...
Quote #7075
Sweet are the uses of adversity, which, like a toad, though ugly and venomous,...
Quote #22128
Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth,...
Quote #20221
A wise man ought always to follow the paths beaten by great men, and...