Quote #23201
I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. My hopes...
Quote #24273
I have become rather like King Midas, except that everything turns not into gold...
Quote #31011
Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they...
Quote #12565
I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced...
Quote #13993
The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those...
Quote #18542
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and consciencious stupidity.
Quote #22153
Everything has two handles,–one by which it may be borne another by which it...
Quote #31469
There is only one real deprivation, I decided this morning, and that is not...
Quote #6825
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Quote #13889
The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal...