“I cannot live without books.”
11 likes
Author detail
This author page remains available for legacy URL compatibility, including alias-backed slug support.
Quotes
Showing 1-20 of 238
“I cannot live without books.”
11 likes
“Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.”
9 likes
“When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through, it is best to meet it with firmness, and accommodate everything to it in the best way practicable. This lessens t...”
0 likes
“I succeed him; no one could replace him.”
0 likes
“Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.”
0 likes
“The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.”
0 likes
“Happiness is not being pained in body, or troubled in mind.”
0 likes
“Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation and freedom in all just...”
0 likes
“Happiness is not being pained in body nor troubled in mind.”
0 likes
“It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, which give happiness.”
0 likes
“I steer my bark with hope in my heart, leaving fear astern.”
0 likes
“The sun - my almighty physician.”
0 likes
“The people are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.”
0 likes
“If a due participation of office is a matter of right, how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few; by resignation, none.”
0 likes
“I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.”
0 likes
“The hole and the patch should be commensurate.”
0 likes
“I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.”
0 likes
“When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.”
0 likes
“The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.”
0 likes
“War is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer.”
0 likes