Quote #17963
Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
Quote #18470
If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend six sharpening...
Quote #8709
God gives us memory so that we may have roses in December.
Quote #10790
We know not of the future, and cannot plan for it much. But we...
Quote #7376
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labour the body.
Quote #31773
One’s prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on...
Quote #3638
I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that...
Quote #20841
To wilful men, the injuries that they themselves procure must be their schoolmasters.
Quote #22282
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and...
Quote #23463
Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth. And set down as gain...