Quote #1794
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained...
Quote #11364
Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding.
Quote #602
It is commonly observed that a sudden wealth, like a prize drawn in a...
Quote #15771
I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
Quote #5226
We have met the enemy and it is us.
Quote #16600
Beware of a man’s shadow and a bee’s sting.
Quote #15030
Fortunate indeed, is the man who takes exactly the right measure of himself, and...
Quote #1291
The superior man…does not set his mind either for anything, or against anything what...
Quote #4217
Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you...
Quote #4674
It is hard to have patience with people who say ‘There is no death’...