Quote #9771
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is...
Quote #19553
Teaching has ruined more American novelists than drink.
Quote #17349
Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life.
Quote #14863
Few ever live to old age, and fewer still ever became distinguished, who were...
Quote #21814
Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage’s whole existence is...
Quote #15629
The perfection preached in the Gospels never yet built up an empire. Every man...
Quote #6659
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like...
Quote #3740
Every culture has its distinctive and normal system of government. Yours is democracy, moderated...
Quote #11354
Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.
Quote #3738
A thing can be true and still be desperate folly.