Quote #4641
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
Quote #33391
When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to...
Quote #8424
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the...
Quote #14945
Our wisdom comes usually from our experience, and our experience comes largely from our...
Quote #11200
A hair on the head is worth two on the brush.
Quote #21564
Doing easily what others find difficult is talent doing what is impossible for talent...
Quote #20586
The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.
Quote #11696
Quod est ante pedes nemo spectat: coeli scrutantur plagas. (No one sees what is...
Quote #26950
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is,...
Quote #27966
People who’ve had happy childhoods are wonderful, but they’re bland An unhappy childhood compels...