Quote #20442
None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the...
Quote #12462
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
Quote #8904
I have come to believe that giving and receiving are really the same. Giving...
Quote #23965
I hold it true,what’er befallI feel it, when I sorrow most’Tis better to have...
Quote #15760
Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.
Quote #11015
What importance can we attach to the things of this world? Friendship? It disappears...
Quote #3139
One should never know too precisely whom one has married.
Quote #10814
No pessimest ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered...
Quote #5686
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly...
Quote #5135
Of all sad words of tongue and pen the saddest are these, what might...