Quote #21730
In mathematics you don’t understand things. You just get used to them.
Quote #20679
Obviously crime pays, or there’d be no crime.
Quote #18378
Pessimists are in a winwin situation, whatever happens they are either always right or...
Quote #1731
Just the omission of Jane Austen’s books alone would make a fairly good library...
Quote #2295
My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.
Quote #7522
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that...
Quote #14452
Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt and limps off the field, piteous,...
Quote #8812
By faithful study of the nobler arts, our nature’s softened, and more gentle grows.
Quote #5754
Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always...
Quote #1588
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn’t.