Quote #22065
The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest...
Quote #14563
It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.
Quote #9922
People feel comfortable around someone who is comfortable with himself.
Quote #29009
It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, That those who...
Quote #15223
A page of history is worth a pound of logic.
Quote #17360
The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
Quote #8054
It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of...
Quote #21120
Modern cynics and skeptics … see no harm in paying those to whom they...
Quote #12097
Each man is his own prisoner, in solitary confinement for life.
Quote #2485
I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartettes, chamber...