Quote #4594
The gifts of a bad man bring no good with them.
Quote #4191
‘We are always doing’, says he, ‘something for Posterity, but I would fain see...
Quote #2328
We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a...
Quote #4317
Never promise more than you can perform.
Quote #2316
When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
Quote #7963
Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it...
Quote #10886
The true fanatic is a theocrat, someone who sees himself as acting on behalf...
Quote #1425
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
Quote #4738
I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are...
Quote #14149
He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.