Quote #1853
Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.
Quote #9519
What is not nailed down is mine. Anything that I can pry loose was...
Quote #6743
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like...
Quote #16884
The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors because the whole of nature...
Quote #25748
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
Quote #7389
Custom is the great guide of human life.
Quote #14145
He who carries out one good deed acquires one advocate in his own behalf,...
Quote #18901
People move forward into the future out of the way they comprehend the past....
Quote #33436
Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you’ll be so close as to...
Quote #3663
Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive...