Quote #28010
Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim.
Quote #23524
Books have the same enemies as people fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own...
Quote #15644
There is only one thing that a philosopher can be relied on to do,...
Quote #29105
To a talkative woman Madam, don’t you have any unexpressed thoughts
Quote #13385
There are three cures for ennui: sleep, drink and travel.
Quote #19901
The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend...
Quote #4455
A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.
Quote #29097
We composers are at least as significant as the stars who make 14 million...
Quote #5759
It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
Quote #28868
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.