Quote #8527
We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and...
Quote #24846
Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind.
Quote #19837
Are we at last brought to such a humiliating and debasing degradation, that we...
Quote #22834
Ultimately, all things are known because you want to believe you know.
Quote #15062
Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he...
Quote #12692
Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.
Quote #23054
One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one...
Quote #14210
The greater difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation...
Quote #25972
One attraction of Latin is that you can immerse yourself in the poems of...
Quote #3416
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you...