Quote #30248
To Robert Fulton What, sir, would you make a ship sail against the wind...
Quote #33951
Plunge boldly into the thick of life
Quote #30249
Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have...
Quote #5726
The past is but the past of a beginning.
Quote #2397
It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man.
Quote #25646
Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly...
Quote #49
God help those who do not help themselves.
Quote #18100
I won’t take my religion from any man who never works except with his...
Quote #31053
Above all things, be not made an ass to carry the burdens of other...
Quote #6378
Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest...