Quote #16619
First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.
Quote #18910
Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
Quote #3977
The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man...
Quote #14516
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger’s...
Quote #18220
Fear is nothing except a drain of energy and Not a power unto itself....
Quote #13626
I believe in making the world safe for our children, but not our children’s...
Quote #5245
Our doubts are traitors,And make us lose the good we oft might winBy fearing...
Quote #3405
As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly...
Quote #8794
The pleasures which we most rarely experience give us the greatest delight.
Quote #10960
Mistakes live in the neighbourhood of truth and therefore delude us.