Quote #18898
The basic purpose of a liberal arts education is to liberate the human being...
Quote #7764
It’s not enough that I should succeed — others should fail.
Quote #42
Man is never honestly the fatalist, nor even the stoic. He fights his fate,...
Quote #2782
All that spirits desire, spirits attain.
Quote #17084
I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and...
Quote #16633
Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence.
Quote #10557
From without, no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves, unless some interior, responding wonder...
Quote #11153
For God’s sake don’t say yes until I’ve finished talking.
Quote #4913
Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you...
Quote #14311
When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had...