Quote #7067
In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.
Quote #15267
We are prisoners of ideas.
Quote #15848
We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not...
Quote #25539
Be slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in, continue firm and...
Quote #26997
To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to seat over lonely labor, to be...
Quote #12636
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct or...
Quote #26086
Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness-a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her...
Quote #12512
I knew a man who gave up smoking, drinking, and rich food. He was...
Quote #12561
Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys....
Quote #5693
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of...