Quote #9481
The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one’s preconceived ideas. In the...
Quote #5731
No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of Truth.
Quote #13072
Things are more like they are now than they have ever been.
Quote #16359
We trained very hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to...
Quote #8659
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk...
Quote #9775
Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals...
Quote #5450
He that is robb’d, not wanting what is stolen, Let him not know ‘t,...
Quote #5141
I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning,...
Quote #15356
It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead.
Quote #1571
Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.