Quote #8265
In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody...
Quote #19553
Teaching has ruined more American novelists than drink.
Quote #26588
The maxim of the British people is ‘Business as Usual.’
Quote #7348
A large part of virtue consists in good habits.
Quote #3079
America: the only country in the world where failing to promote yourself is regarded...
Quote #14956
You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he...
Quote #28823
There is something about poverty that smells like death.
Quote #29513
Life is too serious to be taken seriously.
Quote #13730
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast...
Quote #18250
I generally avoid temptation unless I can’t resist it.