Quote #6864
When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not...
Quote #13257
To conceal ignorance is to increase it. An honest confession of it, however, gives...
Quote #7573
The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self-activity.
Quote #8884
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
Quote #11647
The power to tax, once conceded, has no limits; it contains until it destroys.
Quote #24722
In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many...
Quote #28079
Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re gonna get.
Quote #29271
You can’t win at everything, but you can laugh at everything.
Quote #128
Our lives improve only when we take chances — and the first and most...
Quote #690
The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater...