Quote #30417
If you want to touch the other shore badly enough, barring an impossible situation,...
Quote #9929
Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial...
Quote #10560
This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know...
Quote #18182
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind...
Quote #23920
Be happy while you’re living, for you’re a long time dead.
Quote #7747
Who overcomes by force hath overcome but half his foe.
Quote #978
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Quote #32220
To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.
Quote #27004
Sometimes you have to play for a long time to be able to play...
Quote #24659
It is impossible to underrate human intelligence–beginning with one’s own.