Quote #23385
The saddest thing of word or pen, To know the things that might have...
Quote #22412
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not nothing...
Quote #11270
Adversity is the touchstone of friendship.
Quote #15040
Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts...
Quote #6797
It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
Quote #11544
Being able to support oneself allows one to choose a marriage out of love...
Quote #3903
In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
Quote #23316
It’s difficult to see that people are starving in this country because food isn’t...
Quote #9961
When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
Quote #23518
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof,...