Quote #5619
We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
Quote #17728
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
Quote #23088
As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which...
Quote #8981
Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men,...
Quote #1433
For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to...
Quote #10050
Unless I am what I am and feel what I feel — as hard...
Quote #34875
You wake me up early in the morning to tell me I am right...
Quote #27611
It’s the quality of the ordinary, the straight, the square, that accounts for the...
Quote #27802
That we can comprehend the little we know already is mindboggling in itself.
Quote #23140
Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital...