Quote #17711
The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is...
Quote #27603
What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction...
Quote #5989
Praise is like sunlight to the human spirit: we cannot flower and grow without...
Quote #21607
I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me...
Quote #23223
When a man has cast his longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in...
Quote #29850
Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.
Quote #11597
The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent...
Quote #500
Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
Quote #10336
By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a...
Quote #18939
To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.