Quote #6514
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Quote #9137
She is a friend of my mind… The pieces I am, she gather them...
Quote #7159
Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in advanced age,...
Quote #27868
One who sees inaction in action, and action in inaction, is intelligent among men.
Quote #27570
A mistake proves that someone stopped talking long enough to do something.
Quote #27842
First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits or they...
Quote #4701
Intellectual passion dries out sensuality.
Quote #11195
A groundless rumor often covers a lot of ground.
Quote #33367
Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was...
Quote #26026
Just as every conviction begins as a whim so does every emancipator serve his...