Quote #2102
It took me twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of...
Quote #15975
The defects of the understanding, like those of the face, grow worse as we...
Quote #9681
We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
Quote #7609
Boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble...
Quote #862
May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows your dead
Quote #9040
True greatness comes not when things go always good for you; but true greatness...
Quote #3990
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Quote #25061
To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs,...
Quote #9714
The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
Quote #14686
Ambition is not a vice of little people.