Quote #23201
I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. My hopes...
Quote #30861
To deceive a diplomat speak the truth, he has no experience with it.
Quote #30137
You can always get the truth from a politician after he has turned seventy,...
Quote #4265
The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.
Quote #34103
To get thine ends, lay bashfulness aside Who fears to ask, doth teach to...
Quote #22788
Nothing is as irritating as the fellow who chats pleasantly while he’s overcharging you.
Quote #11
Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to...
Quote #20737
One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his...
Quote #11757
Good seamanship is recovering from an incident at sea. Great seamanship is avoiding an...
Quote #16040
Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting,