Quote #17806
A classic is a book which people praise and don’t read.
Quote #5277
As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty...
Quote #912
God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, thehelpless, the miserable. They find not...
Quote #32202
Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of...
Quote #32940
Books won’t stay banned. They won’t burn. Ideas won’t go to jail. In the...
Quote #29791
The heart’s memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good and thanks to this...
Quote #26075
The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion-these are...
Quote #13168
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove...
Quote #26798
I’m aiming by the time I’m fifty to stop being an adolescent.
Quote #5604
Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.