Quote #24730
Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old.
Quote #13148
God gave us memories that we might have roses in December.
Quote #3172
Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in...
Quote #3431
The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness...
Quote #6167
Too often we…enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
Quote #12356
A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.
Quote #22455
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of priests.
Quote #4137
A councilor ought not to sleep the whole night through, a man to whom...
Quote #5870
It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic, is of...
Quote #21353
The thin and precarious crust of decency is all that separates any civilization, however...