Quote #7376
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labour the body.
Quote #5760
The first casualty when war comes is truth.
Quote #14653
Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
Quote #19921
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly...
Quote #1044
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares...
Quote #24465
A little in one’s own pocket is better than much in another man’s purse.
Quote #21463
A hypocrite is a person who–but who isn’t
Quote #15067
What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks...
Quote #31492
A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
Quote #4506
I bid him look into the lives of men as though into a mirror,...