Quote #10665
The great use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it.
Quote #25044
It was a saying of Demetrius Phalereus, that ‘Men having often abandoned what was...
Quote #29619
In youth the human body drew me and was the object of my secret...
Quote #34476
The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out,...
Quote #34929
When I only begin to read, I forget I’m on this world. It lifts...
Quote #7895
Never tell a man you can read him through and through; most people prefer...
Quote #31444
The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for...
Quote #22313
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue...
Quote #11208
A kind word is like a spring day.
Quote #7103
There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.