Quote #1961
New York: A third-rate Babylon.
Quote #1351
Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet...
Quote #25870
First the grub, then the morals.
Quote #32998
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Quote #17024
There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to...
Quote #14842
Knowledge and personality make doubt possible, but knowledge is also the cure of doubt;...
Quote #23447
Pale death knocks with impartial foot at poor men’s hovels and king’s palaces.
Quote #29713
‘State intelligence,’ like ‘military intelligence’ and ‘woman friend,’ is a contradiction in terms.
Quote #17427
Everything a human being wants can be divided into four components love, adventure, power...
Quote #2514
I have to think hard to name an interesting man who does not drink.