Quote #11628
A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world.
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Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could...
Quote #20552
Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
Quote #21720
Dateline Mesopotamia, 3500 B.C. That’s when the multi-faceted sounds we call music got its...
Quote #19209
To my daughter Leonora without whose never failing sympathy and encouragement this book would...
Quote #10380
The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.
Quote #15084
The education of a man is never completed until he dies.
Quote #6684
Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode it is rather a life.
Quote #19485
When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to...
Quote #2082
He that plants trees loves others beside himself.