Quote #33299
Confidence is Going after Moby Dick in a rowboat, And taking the tarter sauce...
Quote #23513
Who has not hopedTo outrage an enemy’s dignityWho has not been sweptBy the wish...
Quote #22925
There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer...
Quote #30990
Three things it is best to avoid a strange dog, a flood, and a...
Quote #22412
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not nothing...
Quote #20852
Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without...
Quote #3862
Your first appearance, he said to me, is the gauge by which you will...
Quote #10401
To sin by silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men.
Quote #31778
Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
Quote #8070
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful...