O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!William ShakespeareWrite now →Details & source
Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the poor.Thomas GrayWrite now →Details & source
The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.Write now →Details & source
Such as are thy habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of thy mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.Marcus AureliusWrite now →Details & source
A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good.Samuel JohnsonWrite now →Details & source
Often have I sighed to measure By myself a lonely pleasure,— Sighed to think I read a book, Only read, perhaps, by me.William WordsworthWrite now →Details & source
Come what come may, Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.William ShakespeareWrite now →Details & source
Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.Henry Wadsworth LongfellowWrite now →Details & source
Curse on all laws but those which love has made! Love, free as air at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, a…Alexander PopeWrite now →Details & source
There is, however, a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.Edmund BurkeWrite now →Details & source
He is great who is what he is from Nature, and who never reminds us of others.Ralph Waldo EmersonWrite now →Details & source
I do but sing because I must, And pipe but as the linnets sing.Alfred TennysonWrite now →Details & source
Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widen'd with the process of…Alfred TennysonWrite now →Details & source
When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.Thomas JeffersonWrite now →Details & source
The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us.William ShakespeareWrite now →Details & source
Discretion of speech is more than eloquence; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in…Francis BaconWrite now →Details & source
He trudg'd along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.John DrydenWrite now →Details & source
Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face…Alexander PopeWrite now →Details & source
Alas! regardless of their doom, The little victims play; No sense have they of ills to come, Nor care beyond to-day.Thomas GrayWrite now →Details & source
I praise the Frenchman, his remark was shrewd,— How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a frien…William CowperWrite now →Details & source