Quote #4583
We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have.
Quote #24972
All good men are happy when they choose to be their own authors. Those...
Quote #28093
I’m the only American alive or dead who presided unhappily over the removal of...
Quote #11252
A throw of the dice will never abolish chance.
Quote #11067
Most people my age are dead at the present time.
Quote #31890
A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life,...
Quote #4702
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Quote #31087
If you want to get along, go along.
Quote #19952
I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the...
Quote #26489
Brave men are all vertebrates they have their softness on the surface and their...