Quote #8080
Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
Quote #7088
Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
Quote #14060
Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject ourselves, or we know where...
Quote #10767
To be persuasive, we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible;...
Quote #12847
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.
Quote #6749
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret...
Quote #5326
Men of genius are often dull and inert in society, as a blazing meteor...
Quote #8978
The most important thing is to be whatever you are without shame.
Quote #18152
Two things a man should never be angry at what he can help, and...
Quote #24471
Which I have earned with the sweat of my brows.