Quote #19484
Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.
Quote #3867
Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
Quote #16785
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
Quote #8286
Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest...
Quote #14002
He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is...
Quote #6335
I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely...
Quote #24699
Men moving only in an official circle are apt to become merely official —...
Quote #8527
We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and...
Quote #32876
Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who...
Quote #18702
What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.