Quote #19879
The African is my brother-but he is my younger brother by several centuries.
Quote #14165
Doubt is not a pleasant condition but certainty is an absurd one.
Quote #13919
Stupid people always think they are right. Wise people listen to advice.
Quote #23154
The wise determine from the gravity of the case the irritable, from sensibility to...
Quote #27224
If anyone attempts to hall down the American flag shoot him on the spot.
Quote #24496
Let me leap out of the frying-pan into the fire or, out of God’s...
Quote #20874
Pity is the virture of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly.
Quote #27679
When I stopped seeing my mother with the eyes of a child, I saw...
Quote #4476
Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
Quote #10716
History is the record of an encounter between character and circumstances.