Quote #19746
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
Quote #10519
The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class.
Quote #16099
It would take battalions of angels to protect us from our dreaded dangers, though...
Quote #1305
a marvelous machine…a chemical laboratory, a power-house. Every movement, voluntary or...
Quote #6349
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by...
Quote #15681
A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity.
Quote #31135
A scholar knows no boredom.
Quote #2205
There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.
Quote #16682
The outer conditions of a person’s life will always be found to reflect their...
Quote #16152
To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only...