Quote #7301
To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering...
Quote #19479
Sincere diplomacy is no more possible than dry water or wooden iron.
Quote #14684
All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities...
Quote #33033
The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so...
Quote #22424
No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.
Quote #2648
Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.
Quote #14019
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as...
Quote #25848
Believe your beliefs and doubt your doubts.
Quote #2205
There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.
Quote #2588
What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.