Quote #5252
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave...
Quote #28552
It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption, too, after enjoying so...
Quote #32127
The awareness of the ambiguity of one’s highest achievements (as well as one’s deepest...
Quote #34927
The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else....
Quote #24845
The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.
Quote #4247
Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.
Quote #2046
Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have...
Quote #15655
None has more frequent conversations with a disagreeable self than the man of pleasure;...
Quote #8861
Adversity does teach who your real friends are.
Quote #29871
Americans who had traveled in Europe knew the ‘free’ European peasants suffered considerably greater...