Quote #5981
A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that...
Quote #780
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
Quote #16106
A man can know nothing of mankind without knowing something of himself. Self-knowledge is...
Quote #9545
Only the gentle are ever really strong.
Quote #12843
The ability to see beauty is the beginning of our moral sensibility. What we...
Quote #14073
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It...
Quote #17435
Talents are best nurtured in solitude character is best formed in the stormy billows...
Quote #8994
Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom at all, because the mind...
Quote #7049
When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then...
Quote #30824
Life is unbearable, but death is not so pleasant either.