Quote #19744
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be...
Quote #11263
About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age.
Quote #32258
I learned…that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic...
Quote #7793
True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is.
Quote #6812
The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
Quote #9647
I do not know what the future holds, but I know who holds the...
Quote #31989
Rumor is not always wrong. – from Life of Agricola
Quote #5082
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man, and I will show you a failure.
Quote #2093
No statue has ever been put up to a critic.
Quote #2499
A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he...