Quote #6498
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there...
Quote #19214
Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view.
Quote #9484
The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.
Quote #15310
There are two main human sins from which all the others derive: impatience and...
Quote #20067
An alcoholic is someone you don’t like who drinks as much as you do.
Quote #14374
There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge. . . observation of nature, reflection,...
Quote #21184
If a man’s wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.
Quote #22220
What we obtain too cheap we esteem too little it is dearness only that...
Quote #21236
Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed...
Quote #4602
Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he.