Quote #24098
First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost,...
Quote #15072
What makes men of genius, or rather, what they make, is not new ideas,...
Quote #29731
I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the...
Quote #1347
Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion...
Quote #24284
The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
Quote #33877
The most original authors are not so because they advance what is new, but...
Quote #27956
The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement...
Quote #6719
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny...
Quote #7570
You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the...
Quote #34386
The older I get, the more I feel almost beautiful…