Quote #19751
Variety is the soul of pleasure.
Quote #13222
Much that passes for education … is not education at all but ritual. The...
Quote #13235
On this subject I do not which to think, or speak, or write, with...
Quote #4579
The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind, bravery...
Quote #18933
Seek simplicity, and distrust it.
Quote #11790
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure...
Quote #1187
Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is...
Quote #7541
No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
Quote #20325
Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.
Quote #2673
Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.