Quote #8251
Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which...
Quote #34282
Do not fight verbosity with words speech is given to all, intelligence to few.
Quote #1217
Liberalism is trust of the people, tempered by prudence; conservatism, distrust of people, tempered...
Quote #33332
After you’ve been in a place for a while, everything starts to look… I...
Quote #10120
The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life...
Quote #10492
You need only claim the event of your life to make yourself yours. When...
Quote #25423
Courage is a special kind of knowledge the knowledge of how to fear what...
Quote #26089
I don’t wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind...
Quote #23989
Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty...
Quote #33937
He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.