Quote #3480
Through and through the world is infested with quantity. To talk sense is to...
Quote #2695
Of children as of procreation – the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense...
Quote #22462
Three Spaniards, four opinions.
Quote #6852
Evil to him who evil thinks. (Honi Soit Qui Mal Pense)
Quote #19707
How many observe Christ’s birthday How few, his precepts O ’tis easier to keep...
Quote #24560
A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness happiness resides in imaginative...
Quote #27150
Hope is the thing with feathers — that perches in the soul — and...
Quote #13108
When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest...
Quote #26411
All that I’ve learned, I’ve forgotten. The little I still know, I’ve guessed.
Quote #19397
Of all the worldly passions, lust is the most intense. All other worldly passions...