Quote #13788
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain...
Quote #32632
Really, to stop criticism, they say, one must die.
Quote #30656
A book is a story for the mind. A song is a story for...
Quote #11575
To save your world you asked this man to die; Would this man, could...
Quote #32055
The present is theirs the future, for which I really worked, is mine.
Quote #3057
One of the simple but genuine pleasures in life is getting up in the...
Quote #8527
We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and...
Quote #21321
I wish they would only take me as I am.
Quote #1301
There smites nothing so sharp, nor smelleth so sour as shame.
Quote #24411
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his...