Quote #16922
A scholar knows no boredom.
Quote #15720
Study as if you were going to live forever live as if you were...
Quote #19914
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of...
Quote #13065
It’s the quality of the ordinary, the straight, the square, that accounts for the...
Quote #569
Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.
Quote #12416
You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can...
Quote #15902
The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it’s so...
Quote #15354
He felt about books as doctors feel about medicines, or managers about plays –...
Quote #37
For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.
Quote #16173
When I held you in my arms at your baptism, I wanted it to...