Quote #18897
Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.
Quote #15788
Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on...
Quote #15442
If a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.
Quote #14943
A book … unlike a television program, moving picture or any other ‘modern means...
Quote #16970
Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible,...
Quote #8123
I read no newspaper now but Ritchie’s, and in that chiefly the advertisements, for...
Quote #19916
The postman always rings twice.
Quote #5540
Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.
Quote #7402
Advice is least heeded when most needed.
Quote #5928
A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.