Quote #12267
Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Quote #4864
Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.
Quote #10149
Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed:...
Quote #600
To be a saint does not exclude fine dresses nor a beautiful house.
Quote #22546
Time extracts various values from a painter’s work. When these values are exhausted the...
Quote #1876
It has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to...
Quote #21213
Histories make men wise poets, witty the mathematics, subtle natural philosophy, deep moral, grave...
Quote #11506
In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than to advance.
Quote #21566
A lively, disinterested, persistent looking for truth is extraordinarily rare. Action and faith enslave...
Quote #6888
Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause; He...