Quote #32086
We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth’s creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away...
Quote #973
Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
Quote #15990
Those who live on vanity must, not unreasonably, expect to die of mortification.
Quote #22766
The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures...
Quote #17090
Great minds have purposes, little minds have wishes.
Quote #10628
I am an old man, but in many senses a very young man. And...
Quote #23701
Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied...
Quote #131
The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.
Quote #9891
When there are monsters there are miracles.
Quote #14979
Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not...