Quote #18181
The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.
Quote #23609
Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other yet do...
Quote #27209
He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge and one only evil,...
Quote #33037
Make voyages – Attempt them – there’s nothing else…
Quote #6243
Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.
Quote #22615
Nothing feebler than a man does the earth raise up, of all the things...
Quote #28664
The path of least resistance makes all rivers, and some men, crooked.
Quote #13973
To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.
Quote #17630
All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often.
Quote #26054
Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.