Quote #6014
History never looks like history when you are living through it.
Quote #1966
The great omission in American life is solitude. . . that zone of time...
Quote #10711
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes...
Quote #1392
The object is to win fairly, squarely, by the rules – but to win....
Quote #2999
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.
Quote #5361
Since Cleopatra died, I have liv’d in such dishonour that the gods Detest my...
Quote #5548
Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
Quote #20068
The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
Quote #15687
Prayer is the wing wherewith the soul flies to heaven, and meditation the eye...
Quote #18580
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a...