Quote #21870
I came upstairs into the world for I was born in a cellar.
Quote #12630
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.
Quote #28358
We tend to scoff at the beliefs of the ancients. But we can’t scoff...
Quote #18034
It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
Quote #15556
Nature is the most thrifty thing in the world; she never wastes anything; she...
Quote #7009
Thought is the fountain of speech.
Quote #13109
Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.
Quote #27784
To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.
Quote #24108
When the rich wage war it’s the poor who die.
Quote #18880
Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely...