Quote #1483
At my age the bones are water in the morning until food is given...
Quote #25517
Past and to come seem best things present worst.
Quote #33717
After I’m dead I’d rather have people ask why I have no monument than...
Quote #14863
Few ever live to old age, and fewer still ever became distinguished, who were...
Quote #25363
To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing...
Quote #33984
It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that...
Quote #27834
The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
Quote #10628
I am an old man, but in many senses a very young man. And...
Quote #28118
Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually...
Quote #23477
To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of...