Quote #7573
The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self-activity.
Quote #25254
They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.
Quote #11
Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to...
Quote #4952
Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape...
Quote #23501
Don’t bother discussing sex with small children. They rarely have anything to add.
Quote #24330
Death’s brother, Sleep.
Quote #22818
I have seen gross intolerance shown in support of toleration.
Quote #20553
Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.
Quote #30459
If you keep your mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish...
Quote #3966
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as...