Quote #20669
One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.
Quote #11206
Everything may happen. (Omnio fieri possent.)
Quote #19797
Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.
Quote #6722
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
Quote #21766
By asking for the impossible, obtain the best possible.
Quote #12281
In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal...
Quote #21686
The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in...
Quote #25881
False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in...
Quote #22100
It is new fancy rathert than taste which produces so many new fashions.
Quote #3464
Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconceptions...