Quote #7491
Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the...
Quote #18645
Le sens commun n’est pas si commun (Common sense is not so common)
Quote #12460
The pleasure of the senses is always regulated in accordance with the imagination. Man...
Quote #14506
What you are is God’s gift to you. What you make of yourself is...
Quote #18632
Hamlet is a course and barbarous play. One might think the work is the...
Quote #1056
Of no mortal say, ‘That man is happy,’ till vexed by no grievous ill...
Quote #9007
Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private...
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Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.
Quote #9540
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his...
Quote #8564
There is nothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind cannot find some solace for...