Quote #12489
What makes men of genius, or rather, what they make, is not new ideas,...
Quote #2384
Nothing is permanent in this wicked world – not even our troubles.
Quote #19211
At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability...
Quote #14481
The only success worth one’s powder was success in the line of one’s idiosyncrasy...
Quote #4902
Habits are safer than rules you don’t have to watch them. And you don’t...
Quote #3558
Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what...
Quote #17163
A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it,...
Quote #15222
In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.
Quote #11172
I used to envy kids who had an old-fashioned Grandpa. Not any more. I’ve...
Quote #10759
Get thee glass eyes And, like a scurvy politician, seem To see the things...