Quote #4854
From the still-vexed Bermoothes.
Quote #7463
Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not...
Quote #11535
Politics is the art of the possible. (originally, “Die Politik ist die Lehre von...
Quote #21604
Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but...
Quote #12863
Remember that it is far better to follow well than to lead indifferently.
Quote #6928
Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.
Quote #33419
But pain… seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead...
Quote #18071
The great omission in American life is solitude. . . that zone of time...
Quote #25110
The weaker the data available upon which to base one’s conclusion, the greater the...
Quote #12373
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the...