Quote #17990
It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live...
Quote #25589
A soft answer turneth away wrath.
Quote #32883
If only we’d stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good...
Quote #19955
‘We are always doing’, says he, ‘something for Posterity, but I would fain see...
Quote #8724
There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
Quote #23524
Books have the same enemies as people fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own...
Quote #28715
If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having...
Quote #19837
Are we at last brought to such a humiliating and debasing degradation, that we...
Quote #27569
Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from...
Quote #7103
There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.