Quote #19811
The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.
Quote #5759
It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
Quote #599
I am treating you as my friend asking you share my present minuses in...
Quote #20395
I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are...
Quote #441
The ultimate indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls...
Quote #25878
Nobody speaks the truth when there’s something they must have.
Quote #5861
Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.
Quote #33447
The dead cannot cry out for justice it is a duty of the living...
Quote #15643
A true philosopher is like an elephant; he never puts the second foot down...
Quote #5825
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and...