Quote #12035
He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
Quote #811
A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience...
Quote #7595
I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and...
Quote #5186
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Quote #6457
It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible,...
Quote #673
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five...
Quote #9874
The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar minds — success.
Quote #2021
Reason to rule but mercy to forgive The first is the law, the last...
Quote #7836
I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in...
Quote #6949
Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us...