Quote #19918
Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
Quote #17473
We take greater pains to persuade others that we are happy than in endeavoring...
Quote #27771
Poets generally love cats — because poets have no delusions about their own superiority.
Quote #13472
In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is...
Quote #32761
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Quote #17123
Were we faultless, we would not derive such satisfaction from remarking the faults of...
Quote #27126
To receive everything, one must open one’s hands and give.
Quote #34234
No important institution is ever merely what the law makes it. It accumulates about...
Quote #16307
The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste...
Quote #24800
The trouble is that everyone talks about reforming others, and no one thinks about...