Quote #2428
You have to have a talent for having talent.
Quote #22913
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our...
Quote #18608
The desire for success lubricates secret prostitutions in the soul.
Quote #7745
Presumption means nothing more than as stated by Lord Mansfield, the weighing of probabilities,...
Quote #7899
All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often.
Quote #3294
Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.
Quote #27086
One of the most effectual ways of pleasing and of making one’s self loved...
Quote #31127
Calamity is the test of integrity.
Quote #32263
Invincibility lies in the defense the possibility of victory in the attack. One defends...
Quote #30098
To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.