Quote #2348
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
Quote #5712
Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.
Quote #11001
The real giants have been poets, men who jumped from facts into the realm...
Quote #6019
When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be...
Quote #15809
The next thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one.
Quote #7710
Art may make a suit of clothes: but nature must produce a man.
Quote #34392
That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing.
Quote #10850
It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline....
Quote #14818
Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits...
Quote #10933
The resounding echo of the mortal coil, echoes in the ears of those who...