Quote #15866
Mere sorrow, which weeps and sits still, is not repentance. Repentance is sorrow converted...
Quote #26539
The more you know, the less you understand.
Quote #29573
I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the...
Quote #16050
Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and...
Quote #910
Anyone who has got a book collection and a garden wants for nothing.
Quote #23521
Man’s great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or...
Quote #3107
It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich...
Quote #33359
Let them hate so long as they fear.
Quote #8790
Sleep is often the only occasion in which man cannot silence his conscience; we...
Quote #22148
Reason is not measured by size or height, but by principle.