Quote #2471
Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.
Quote #15138
When something (an affliction) happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or...
Quote #19743
Do definite good first of all to yourself, then to definite persons.
Quote #2610
The best hope is that one of these days the ground will get disgusted...
Quote #6183
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
Quote #20115
What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway.
Quote #16852
Only those books come down which deserve to last . All the gilt edges,...
Quote #7711
I pray thee cease thy counsel, Which falls into mine ears as profitless as...
Quote #7286
Absence, with all its pains, is, by this charming moment, wiped away.
Quote #31653
One very important ingredient of success is a good, wide-awake, persistent, tireless enemy.