Quote #186
An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
Quote #13927
The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else...
Quote #5746
Knowledge without know-how is sterile. We use the word “academic” in a pejorative sense...
Quote #18877
Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child’s eyes, is...
Quote #19805
The individual will always be a minority. If a man is in a minority...
Quote #21854
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth....
Quote #4409
Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness,...
Quote #17869
All schools, all colleges have two great functions to confer, and to conceal valuable...
Quote #30774
And all the winds go sighing, For sweet things dying.
Quote #6930
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits....