Quote #33462
There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken...
Quote #29960
The only cure for contempt is countercontempt.
Quote #28409
If I could be a bird, I think I’d be a penguin, because then...
Quote #15312
It is not a lucky word, this name “impossible”; no good comes of those...
Quote #21341
Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons – that’s philosophy.
Quote #10362
We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of a man; but...
Quote #15870
A good inclination is but the first rude draught of virtue, but the finishing...
Quote #16333
The art of conversation consist as much in listening politely, as in talking agreeably.
Quote #23524
Books have the same enemies as people fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own...
Quote #20669
One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.