Quote #1804
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs the torments...
Quote #7774
Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without...
Quote #21788
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and...
Quote #27577
Johnny couldn’t read … for the simple reason that nobody ever showed him how.
Quote #17202
Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and...
Quote #25171
All doubt, despair, and fear become insignificant once the intention of life becomes love,...
Quote #735
No one ever told me grief felt so much like fear.
Quote #25324
No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to...
Quote #18230
Wives in their husbands’ absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the...
Quote #27517
Wherever a set of alternative possible routes toward achieving a given end presents itself,...