Quote #7550
Experience teaches only the teachable.
Quote #15120
The reason why great men meet with so little pity or attachment in adversity,...
Quote #24535
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Thse who cannot remember the...
Quote #5187
Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears...
Quote #27352
We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big...
Quote #32604
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a...
Quote #1995
As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with irrational...
Quote #2845
The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.
Quote #1779
I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.
Quote #11847
The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of...