Quote #2066
I can sympathise with people’s pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something...
Quote #6694
The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest...
Quote #8090
There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and...
Quote #2103
And be on they guard against the good and the just They would fain...
Quote #18917
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right...
Quote #17804
A man can go on without wealth, and even without purpose, for a while....
Quote #10026
The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.
Quote #12634
Success isn’t permanent, and failure isn’t fatal.
Quote #5141
I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning,...
Quote #10760
There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his...