Quote #689
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
Quote #25175
The trebling of the population in this small and impoverished country, flowing with milk...
Quote #4856
Fill all thy bones with aches.
Quote #21420
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never...
Quote #21287
Chess teaches you to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something...
Quote #1919
Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.
Quote #8770
The downside to being better than everyone is that people seem to think you...
Quote #3823
Setting loose on the battlefield weapons that are able to learn may be one...
Quote #17966
A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
Quote #18467
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them