Quote #4546
Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.
Quote #250
Practical people would be more practical if they would take a little more time...
Quote #3076
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
Quote #15794
We ought not to look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from...
Quote #11548
Brevity is the soul of wit.
Quote #11232
A person should want to live, if only out of curiosity.
Quote #21827
When a fellow says it ain’t the money but the principle of the thing,...
Quote #15362
Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages;...
Quote #2747
Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
Quote #16730
Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.