Quote #27047
Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown...
Quote #12168
A novel is not, after all, a historical document, but a way to travel...
Quote #28590
Genius is nothing but continued attention.
Quote #5677
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few...
Quote #1868
I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
Quote #11647
The power to tax, once conceded, has no limits; it contains until it destroys.
Quote #17821
Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
Quote #17003
The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is...
Quote #2785
All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.
Quote #23750
Differences in political opinion are as unavoidable as, to a certain point, they may...