Quote #32634
People have declaimed against luxury for 2000 years, in verse and in prose, and...
Quote #11357
Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
Quote #2524
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong...
Quote #12528
A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
Quote #18447
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Quote #11825
Reverence for life brings us into a spiritual relation with the world which is...
Quote #2990
Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty.
Quote #23798
There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the...
Quote #13787
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
Quote #26409
Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating...