Quote #21766
By asking for the impossible, obtain the best possible.
Quote #23284
If they give you lined paper, write the other way.
Quote #21646
Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes,...
Quote #15280
Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have...
Quote #21832
Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable, than risk being happy.
Quote #32585
Perform your long and heavy task with energy, treading the path to which Fate...
Quote #31178
Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible,...
Quote #2436
Minds are like parachutes – they only function when open.
Quote #7159
Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in advanced age,...
Quote #86
We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.