Quote #22778
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and...
Quote #6424
The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the...
Quote #631
Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost...
Quote #10517
The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.
Quote #10410
It is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of security...
Quote #9164
Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.
Quote #7573
The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self-activity.
Quote #5430
It is very strange that the years teach us patience – that the shorter...
Quote #6991
By force of arms. (Vi Et Armis)
Quote #20040
We look before and after, And pine for what is not Our sincerest laughter...