Quote #27841
Real poverty is less a state of income than a state of mind.
Quote #21051
Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.
Quote #33782
I’ve never known any trouble that an hour’s reading didn’t assuage.
Quote #6259
The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures...
Quote #21230
No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of Truth.
Quote #5296
It is only about things that do not interest one that one can give...
Quote #26847
Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a...
Quote #5286
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are and doing things...
Quote #616
Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.
Quote #7026
Whatever you undertake, act with prudence, and consider the consequences.