Quote #725
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
Quote #9567
What actions are most excellent? To gladden the heart of human beings, to feed...
Quote #12350
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
Quote #3488
On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place...
Quote #31514
History’s lessons are no more enlightening than the wisdom of those who interpret them.
Quote #32680
It strikes me as gruesome and comical that in our culture we have an...
Quote #3369
Order, unity and continuity are human inventions just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.
Quote #5881
There are one-story intellects, two-story intellects, and three-story intellects with skylights. All fact collectors...
Quote #10355
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent,...
Quote #6912
Drink nothing without seeing it; sign nothing without reading it.