Quote #7655
Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing...
Quote #31799
Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self it is no humility...
Quote #13135
Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not...
Quote #16830
Speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon-balls and to-morrow speak...
Quote #20406
The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished...
Quote #16567
Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
Quote #17042
The fools in this world make about as much trouble as the wicked do.
Quote #15302
We can gradually grow into any condition we desire, provided we first make ourselves...
Quote #29966
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed — and...
Quote #8143
The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything....