Quote #19613
Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn’t perfection but progress.
Quote #19626
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.
Quote #18520
The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you...
Quote #20601
Be not ashamed of thy virtues honor’s a good brooch to wear in a...
Quote #5212
When solving problems, dig at the roots instead of just hacking at the leaves.
Quote #18611
The public is a ferocious beast — one must either chain it up or...
Quote #10791
Playing seems to be both disinterested and passionate at the same time disinterested in...
Quote #11154
The next best thing to being witty one’s self, is to be able to...
Quote #13248
The most radical division that it is possible to make of humanity is that...
Quote #3684
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget...