Quote #31649
Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of...
Quote #2648
Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.
Quote #23688
To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of...
Quote #6828
The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.
Quote #34025
For people to judge a man’s worth and his very manhood according to the...
Quote #3963
A lawyer starts life giving $500 worth of law for $5 and ends giving...
Quote #5624
Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
Quote #15631
Plodding wins the race.
Quote #11751
To die for an idea is to place a pretty high price upon conjectures.
Quote #4351
A bad beginning makes a bad ending.