We live in a funny time. If you don't go corporate you can't compete. You're relegated as irrelevant. People used to admire that.
People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it they...
To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them is perhaps the highest...
An honest man speaks the truth though it may give offence a vain man in...
There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we...
You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and...
A wise traveler never despises his own country.
It is not fit that every man should travel it makes a wise man better and a...
Prosperity is a great teacher adversity a greater.
The world judge of men by their ability in their profession and we judge of...
A gentle word a kind look a good-natured smile can work wonders and...
There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may...
A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives but has no respect for himself....
There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their...
The incentive to ambition is the love of power.
The love of liberty is the love of others the love of power is the love of...
Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.
Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and...
The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.
We do not see nature with our eyes but with our understandings and our hearts.
Learning is its own exceeding great reward.
If we wish to know the force of human genius we should read Shakespeare. If...
Zeal will do more than knowledge.
The seat of knowledge is in the head of wisdom in the heart. We are sure to...
A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a...
The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are...
I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling if I could anywhere...
No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of...
There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force...
The dupe of friendship and the fool of love have I not reason to hate and to...
Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our...
Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but...
To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love are the two greatest...
Even in the common affairs of life in love friendship and marriage how...
Wit is the salt of conversation not the food.
Satirists gain the applause of others through fear not through love.
