Quote #15823
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
Quote #1641
Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love.
Quote #17202
Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and...
Quote #21947
The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all...
Quote #9121
Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more...
Quote #8097
When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
Quote #21713
The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into...
Quote #32873
A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of...
Quote #23544
Love of God is not always the same as love of good.
Quote #12492
I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person...