Quote #11289
An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick.
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It is a mistake to suppose that God is only, or even chiefly, concerned...
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Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is...
Quote #7762
The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there...
Quote #21738
Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the...
Quote #8998
How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire!
Quote #4071
Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others with out getting a few...
Quote #19772
Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike...
Quote #18640
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being...
Quote #5711
History, although sometimes made up of the few acts of the great, is more...