Quote #6339
Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one’s...
Quote #4159
Calamities are of two kinds misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
Quote #4568
I believe in the incomprehensibility of God.
Quote #9843
I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening...
Quote #5898
Such prosperity as we have known up to the present is the consequence of...
Quote #12459
One must do violence to the object of one’s desire when it surrenders, the...
Quote #18757
If only we’d stop trying to be happy we’d have a pretty good time.
Quote #10776
A man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without...
Quote #240
We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
Quote #9559
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance...