Quote #10096
The growth of understanding follows an ascending spiral rather than a straight line.
Quote #12350
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
Quote #14432
Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain,...
Quote #34442
How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire
Quote #30935
Though a tree grow ever so high, the falling leaves return to the ground.
Quote #17888
I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent,...
Quote #20981
O, beware, my lord, of jealousy It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock...
Quote #34635
If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves...
Quote #30264
We’re a sentimental people. We like a few kind words better than millions of...
Quote #1267
There is no “royal road” to geometry.