Quote #7681
They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my...
Quote #11985
Live simply that others may simply live.
Quote #7952
I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.
Quote #24859
Despair, in short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds its own...
Quote #11959
I know of no way to judge the future but by the past.
Quote #16730
Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.
Quote #621
The eleventh commandment — Thou shalt not be found out — is the only...
Quote #8484
Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to...
Quote #7348
A large part of virtue consists in good habits.
Quote #17452
To know that one knows what one knows, and to know that one doesn’t...