Quote #26002
The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl...
Quote #3473
Secret thoughts and open countenance will go safely over the whole world.
Quote #21080
Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America — that we...
Quote #27779
Fear grows out of the things we think it lives in our minds. Compassion...
Quote #19482
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else...
Quote #7103
There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
Quote #31489
The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity so have some little frocks...
Quote #18134
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it,...
Quote #20927
The gaudy, blabbing, and remorseful day Is crept into the bosom of the sea.
Quote #18781
I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from...