Quote #27912
I don’t think anyone should write their autobiography until after they’re dead.
Quote #23514
Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary.
Quote #24096
The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were...
Quote #14241
Beware of the half truth. You may have gotten hold of the wrong half.
Quote #6124
The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
Quote #5052
The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as...
Quote #15574
The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human...
Quote #15390
Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
Quote #2196
Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should...
Quote #5408
True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table;...