Quote #3772
Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first and the lessons afterwards.
Quote #3197
There is no passion like that of a functionary for his function.
Quote #10058
Luck? Sure. But only after long practice and only with the ability to think...
Quote #30707
Happiness is a sunbeam, Which may pass through a thousand bosoms Without losing a...
Quote #9747
Woe be to him that reads but one book.
Quote #27380
Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever...
Quote #8586
We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it,...
Quote #13495
Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.
Quote #25759
You need more fact in the dangerous art of giving presents than in any...
Quote #20245
One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.