Quote #23820
By faithful study of the nobler arts, our nature’s softened, and more gentle grows.
Quote #25315
The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life...
Quote #10149
Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed:...
Quote #25960
Some of the waiters discuss the menu with you as if they were sharing...
Quote #13066
If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
Quote #16224
As the flectcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his...
Quote #2311
What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me...
Quote #21986
Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey ‘people.’ People say...
Quote #17544
There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one...
Quote #7509
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.