Quote #5712
Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.
Quote #32919
History is always best written generations after the event, when clouded fact and memory...
Quote #8299
I have lost friends, some by death… others through sheer inability to cross the...
Quote #4692
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
Quote #17004
In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has...
Quote #8495
Ready comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding....
Quote #32873
A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of...
Quote #17185
I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
Quote #30761
Parents need to fill a child’s bucket of self-esteem so high that the rest...
Quote #31852
Keep high aspirations, moderate expectations, and small needs.