Quote #27578
It is occasionally possible to charge hell with a bucket of water, but against...
Quote #7768
Do not fight verbosity with words: speech is given to all, intelligence to few.
Quote #3334
An intelligence service is, in fact, a stupidity service.
Quote #7008
There is no legal obligation to perform impossibilities.
Quote #9054
In every bit of honest writing in the world, there is a base theme....
Quote #29640
Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of...
Quote #24138
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then...
Quote #7900
The first condition of immortality is death.
Quote #12605
Books are the way the dead talk to the living.
Quote #7938
I prefer complexity to certainty, cheerful mysteries to sullen facts.