Quote #20268
A great obstacle to happiness is to anticipate too great a happiness.
Quote #17736
Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is...
Quote #33958
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
Quote #11709
Men may seem detestable as joint stock-companies and nations; knaves, fools, and murderers there...
Quote #6412
Civilization is very much an immature and ongoing experiment, the success of which is...
Quote #3139
One should never know too precisely whom one has married.
Quote #24627
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the...
Quote #15128
No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross,...
Quote #19094
Tell me not, in mournful numbers,Life is but an empty dreamFor the soul is...
Quote #1611
As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.