Quote #22747
If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is...
Quote #15993
Vanity makes us do more things against inclination than reason.
Quote #33244
In general, in poetry and literature, I am among those people who believe that...
Quote #9526
If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
Quote #3762
I will not go so far as to say that to construct a history...
Quote #6850
Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give...
Quote #2333
Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of...
Quote #759
There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
Quote #3390
Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but...
Quote #33712
Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave—oh leave the light of...