Quote #22146
Practise yourself, for heaven’s sake, in little things and thence proceed to greater.
Quote #343
Fishing gives you a sense of where you fit in the sceme of things...
Quote #20111
Give the world the best you have and you may get hurt. Give the...
Quote #12161
Some people are so fond of ill-luck that they run half- way to meet...
Quote #12230
…greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself.
Quote #1543
I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies....
Quote #1109
It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that...
Quote #6470
There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the...
Quote #7706
I must be cruel only to be kind; Thus bad begins, and worse remains...
Quote #29576
One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach.