Quote #9740
The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, is to understand things...
Quote #29747
The essential matter of history is not what happened but what people thought or...
Quote #8309
Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.
Quote #18102
Solitude vivifies isolation kills.
Quote #25968
I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.
Quote #12532
To teach well is to believe in what and whom you teach.
Quote #27603
What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction...
Quote #93
Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside...
Quote #6156
Those whom the Gods would destroy, they first call promising.
Quote #12388
Impossible is nothing.