Quote #8611
Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before...
Quote #10045
Filling a bookcase is like gathering a social circle.
Quote #1310
Music has charms to soothe the savage breast To soften rocks, or bend a...
Quote #34434
Drink nothing without seeing it sign nothing without reading it.
Quote #7398
Tears at times have all the weight of speech.
Quote #18457
‘Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and...
Quote #28595
Why do we love the sea It is because it has some potent power...
Quote #34707
You need only claim the event of your life to make yourself yours. When...
Quote #25069
The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they...
Quote #19778
Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.