Quote #16352
Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom.
Quote #2774
Old age is always fifteen years older than I am.
Quote #30225
Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.
Quote #31514
History’s lessons are no more enlightening than the wisdom of those who interpret them.
Quote #30308
The world is content with setting right the surface of things.
Quote #32630
There has never been a perfect government, because men have passions and if they...
Quote #24910
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your...
Quote #3797
Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of...
Quote #4640
What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of...
Quote #10441
Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.