Quote #6124
The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
Quote #15066
All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of...
Quote #15681
A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity.
Quote #11333
Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to...
Quote #27174
Virtue is praised but hated. People run away from it, for it is ice-cold...
Quote #30248
To Robert Fulton What, sir, would you make a ship sail against the wind...
Quote #16623
We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
Quote #1582
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
Quote #5171
I recommend that you take care of the minutes, for the hours will take...
Quote #14087
What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.