Quote #33937
He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
Quote #17842
Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessaries.
Quote #33894
Man supposes that he directs his life and governs his actions, when his existence...
Quote #13669
Weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human...
Quote #9083
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
Quote #23136
All government — indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent...
Quote #9905
I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read...
Quote #31661
If I had thought about it, I wouldn’t have done the experiment. The literature...
Quote #2134
That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself has...
Quote #24820
More important than learning how to recall things is finding ways to forget things...