Quote #1145
To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy....
Quote #30231
How glorious it is – and also how painful – to be an exception.
Quote #32097
Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.
Quote #33942
Know’st thou the land where the lemon-trees bloom, Where the gold orange glows in...
Quote #8601
Times of general calamity and confusion create great minds. The purest ore is produced...
Quote #4525
The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is...
Quote #33686
Men willingly believe what they wish.
Quote #27598
Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.
Quote #24936
Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and...
Quote #27453
I can’t keep from fooling around with our irrefutable certainties. It is, for example,...