Quote #22045
The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for...
Quote #26858
Make the iron hot by striking it.
Quote #33496
A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel.
Quote #5787
The way to procure insults is to submit to them: a man meets with...
Quote #34497
Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.
Quote #3541
Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for...
Quote #21692
Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct...
Quote #18167
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
Quote #10103
The personal, if it is deep enough, becomes universal, mythical, symbolic.
Quote #21263
The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is ‘look under foot.’ You are...