Quote #2800
Why should I tolerate a perfect stranger at the bedside of my mind?
Quote #34696
The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only...
Quote #34829
Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
Quote #17785
Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.
Quote #3265
Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant.
Quote #30508
The sensibility of man to trifles, and his insensibility to great things, indicates a...
Quote #14198
The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to...
Quote #13222
There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying...
Quote #17361
For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard...
Quote #20729
One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details....