Quote #18889
Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before...
Quote #17393
The highest happiness of man … is to have probed what is knowable and...
Quote #18827
You progress not through improving what has been done, but reaching toward what has...
Quote #10201
No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.
Quote #2495
A billion here, a billion there – pretty soon it adds up to real...
Quote #22012
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
Quote #13827
Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey “people.” People say...
Quote #1916
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor...
Quote #24060
A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.
Quote #3181
Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.