Quote #16686
Do not lengthen the quarrel while there is an opportunity of escaping.
Quote #20733
Nonsense and noise will oft prevail, when honour and affection fail.
Quote #16928
Luck is the residue of design.
Quote #4236
There are two sorts of curiosity — the momentary and the permanent. The momentary...
Quote #15074
True refinement seeks simplicity.
Quote #21760
To be one’s self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than...
Quote #7403
In the morning be first up, and in the evening last to go to...
Quote #20763
No important institution is ever merely what the law makes it. It accumulates about...
Quote #2157
Wives in their husbands’ absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the...
Quote #17642
Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.