Quote #5546
We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us...
Quote #26383
I’m perplexed when people adopt the modish abbreviation Ms., which doesn’t abbreviate anything except...
Quote #9191
The price of greatness is responsibility.
Quote #10319
Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.
Quote #34750
Trees like to have kids climb on them, but trees are much bigger than...
Quote #7020
Persuasion is often more effectual than force.
Quote #26907
I was taught that the way of progress is neither swift nor easy.
Quote #10411
To state a theorem and then to show examples is literally to teach backwards.
Quote #25646
Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly...
Quote #9184
One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one...