Quote #3561
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
Quote #17152
The leaders I met, whatever walk of life they were from, whatever institutions they...
Quote #4685
All hope abandon, ye who enter here!
Quote #17883
Just the omission of Jane Austen’s books alone would make a fairly good library...
Quote #29495
Disclaimer If anyone disagrees with anything I say, I am quite prepared to not...
Quote #3793
Heaven goes by favour. If it went by merit, you would stay out and...
Quote #32951
I don’t believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no...
Quote #31239
It is for the wise people who delight in humanity, praise justice, despise their...
Quote #11
Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to...
Quote #8212
Anyone who can handle a needle convincingly can make us see a thread which...