Quote #2570
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Quote #11070
If happiness truly consisted of physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest...
Quote #21814
Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage’s whole existence is...
Quote #15557
Nature is a mutable cloud, which is always and never the same.
Quote #7934
They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
Quote #19363
If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject...
Quote #7471
In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.
Quote #26235
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds and...
Quote #31133
Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which...
Quote #17778
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don’t know.