Quote #21080
Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America — that we...
Quote #14262
Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
Quote #24684
Patience and perserverence have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
Quote #4455
A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.
Quote #21213
Histories make men wise poets, witty the mathematics, subtle natural philosophy, deep moral, grave...
Quote #11746
A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, — a mere heart...
Quote #22702
To love and win is the best thing, to love and lose, the next...
Quote #14952
No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.
Quote #24222
As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable.
Quote #16063
By words the mind is winged.