Quote #8672
Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own...
Quote #3705
…exaggerated turns of speech conceal mediocre affections: as if the fulness of the soul...
Quote #6969
A show of daring oft conceals great fear.
Quote #20453
What does education often do It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering...
Quote #19724
Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end...
Quote #398
Never trust a husband too far or a bachelor too near.
Quote #8297
In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man...
Quote #2787
Both the cockroach and the bird could get along very well without us, although...
Quote #12236
Absolute power is the power to destroy.
Quote #18205
If all pulled in one direction, the world would keel over.