Quote #3827
Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or...
Quote #2472
I am firm. You are obstinate. He is a pig-headed fool.
Quote #7186
Do no dishonour to the earth least you dishonour the spirit of man.
Quote #4616
It is better, of cours, to know useless things than to know nothing.
Quote #16534
Science is a mechanism, a way of trying to improve your knowledge of nature....
Quote #17100
How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us, and...
Quote #30570
It is innocence that is full and experience that is empty. It is innocence...
Quote #2543
Socrates seems to be the philosophical napkin with which the ensuing cultural thinkers of...
Quote #30641
The best time to do a thing is when it can be done.
Quote #18528
‘At this festive season of the year, Mr Scrooge,’ said the gentleman, taking up...