Quote #19183
Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt… Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.
Quote #4668
For many are called, but few are chosen.
Quote #10960
Mistakes live in the neighbourhood of truth and therefore delude us.
Quote #14529
The line, often adopted by strong men in controversy, of justifying the means by...
Quote #701
Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.
Quote #2757
If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
Quote #6865
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let...
Quote #9223
The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.
Quote #3545
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is...
Quote #13088
The historian must have some conceptions of how men who are not historians behave.