Quote #19675
To err is human, to repent divine, to persist devilish.
Quote #27898
Life isn’t fair. It’s just fairer than death, that’s all.
Quote #18532
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you’ve conquered human nature.
Quote #3705
…exaggerated turns of speech conceal mediocre affections: as if the fulness of the soul...
Quote #6394
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Quote #18180
It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This...
Quote #4029
Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times...
Quote #16019
A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons...
Quote #16508
It is better to be hated for who you are than to be loved...
Quote #7569
True gentleness is founded on a sense of what we owe to him who...