It is not miserable to be blind; it is miserable to be incapable of enduring blindness. – John Milton Category: Eyes
To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine. – Max Beerbohm Category: History
Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you? – Walt Whitman Category: great