Quote #19303
Words, as is well known, are great foes of reality.
Quote #14739
Socrates called beauty a short-lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent...
Quote #31203
Nobody does good to man with impunity.
Quote #22010
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.
Quote #22155
It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
Quote #7451
Nonsense and noise will oft prevail, when honour and affection fail.
Quote #7775
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in...
Quote #13021
I give myself, sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.
Quote #18823
Of life’s two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a...
Quote #15661
To name an object is to deprive a poem of three-fourths of its pleasure,...