Quote #6124
The man who insists on seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides.
Quote #15989
Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.
Quote #17098
The question grows more troubling with each passing year how much of what yesterday’s...
Quote #3166
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
Quote #12276
Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
Quote #5296
Free from gross passion or of mirth or anger constant in spirit, not swerving...
Quote #11271
The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely...
Quote #8120
If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within...
Quote #7430
What luck for rulers that men do not think.
Quote #10610
A girl becomes a wife with her eyes wide open. She knows that those...