“Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.”
Tip: press → for another quote, C to copy, S to share.
I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
There is no royal road to learning no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour.
