Quote #18405
Everyone who receives the protection of society owes a return for the benefit.
Quote #5432
Americans are overreachers; overreaching is the most admirable of the many American excesses.
Quote #4768
Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it.
Quote #4617
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
Quote #14832
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither...
Quote #17974
Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
Quote #13473
Never mistake motion for action.
Quote #34077
Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose...
Quote #31296
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
Quote #12539
To each mortal peradventure earth becomes a new machine.