Quote #19314
I traveled a good deal all over the world, and I got along pretty...
Quote #1456
Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not...
Quote #24760
I sit beside my lonely fire and pray for wisdom yet for calmness to...
Quote #17480
Wealth and rank are what people desire, but unless they be obtained in the...
Quote #20515
It is impossible to live without brains, either one’s own or borrowed.
Quote #15153
Habits are cobwebs at first; cables at last.
Quote #2207
(Of Jesus): “A parish demogogue.”
Quote #33615
Would that the Roman people had a single neck to cut off their head.
Quote #17030
A man running for office puts me in mind of a dog that’s lost–he...
Quote #14092
Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation,...