Quote #10458
The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.
Quote #3267
No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are...
Quote #22436
Where there is love, there is pain.
Quote #7611
Let them hate so long as they fear. (Oderint Dum Metuant)
Quote #9014
We strain to renew our capacity for wonder, to shock ourselves into astonishment once...
Quote #27788
The metaphor is perhaps one of man’s most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on...
Quote #32760
The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
Quote #1569
Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty...
Quote #15816
It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.
Quote #9039
There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too...