A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.

Quote by Thomas Carlyle

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Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less...

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less...

Happy the people whose annals are blank in history books.

Happy the people whose annals are blank in history books.

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

Teach a parrot the terms supply and demand and you've got an economist.

Teach a parrot the terms supply and demand and you've got an economist.

Wonderful ''Force of Public Opinion!'' We must act and walk in all points as it...

Wonderful ''Force of Public Opinion!'' We must act and walk in all points as it...

Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the...

Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the...

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults...

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults...

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and...

Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and...

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they...

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they...

Endurance is patience concentrated.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

The great law of culture is: Let each become all that he was capable of...

The great law of culture is: Let each become all that he was capable of...

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better....

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better....

Democracy is cumbersome, slow and inefficient, but in due time, the voice of the people...

Democracy is cumbersome, slow and inefficient, but in due time, the voice of the people...

The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.

The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.

The novel can't compete with cars, the movies, television, and liquor. A guy who's had...

The novel can't compete with cars, the movies, television, and liquor. A guy who's had...

If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always...

If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always...

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and...

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and...

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical...

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical...

Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of...

Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of...