Quote #12196
As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may...
Quote #2097
The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.
Quote #2646
It’s not that age brings childhood back again, Age merely shows what children we...
Quote #6585
Don’t hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting but never...
Quote #10916
Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open.
Quote #5535
Blessed is he who has found his work let him ask no other blessedness.
Quote #11971
I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to...
Quote #11921
For myself I am an optimist–it does not seem to be much use being...
Quote #859
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the...
Quote #17263
He’s simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.