Quote #2574
We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity – gunpowder...
Quote #11370
Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own...
Quote #28118
Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually...
Quote #1981
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers...
Quote #15582
Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.
Quote #14409
The most decisive actions of our life — I mean those that are most...
Quote #13230
The same state of the passions which fits the multitude, who have not sufficient...
Quote #30248
To Robert Fulton What, sir, would you make a ship sail against the wind...
Quote #4054
Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
Quote #32510
What if this weren’t a hypothetical question