Quote #21434
When you are at Rome live in the Roman style when you are elsewhere...
Quote #11927
I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The...
Quote #8039
That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.
Quote #3866
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain, and most fools do.
Quote #14995
If you want something very, very badly, let it go free. If it comes...
Quote #3958
Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
Quote #10325
Whatever may befall thee, it was preordained for thee from everlasting.
Quote #17517
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.
Quote #1884
A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.
Quote #5163
One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his...