Quote #381
Self-denial is not a virtue it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.
Quote #8361
His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling,...
Quote #16081
Without music life would be a mistake.
Quote #1462
Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted and pure love without power is destroyed.
Quote #3765
There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than...
Quote #10660
Courage is a special kind of knowledge the knowledge of how to fear what...
Quote #19750
Oh, what a dear ravishing thing is the beginning of an Amour
Quote #20237
I call architecture frozen music.
Quote #10600
All historians, even the most scientific, have bias, if in no other sense than...
Quote #21755
I’m keenly aware of the Pride coming before the Fall . . . but...