Quote #596
Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
Quote #19876
When you wish to instruct, be brief that men’s minds take in quickly what...
Quote #19208
To become oneself, with all one’s strength. Difficult. A bomb, a speech, a rifle...
Quote #13200
The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice....
Quote #7090
No matter what you’ve done for yourself or for humanity, if you can’t look...
Quote #10241
It was a saying of Demetrius Phalereus, that ‘Men having often abandoned what was...
Quote #16640
It’s easy to halve the potato where there’s love.
Quote #9634
Let me leap out of the frying-pan into the fire or, out of God’s...
Quote #18167
Whenever there is a simple error that most laymen fall for, there is always...
Quote #12487
Royalty has always been an unconscious but all-consuming goal of the European immigrant.