Quote #11757
Good seamanship is recovering from an incident at sea. Great seamanship is avoiding an...
Quote #16249
Some have half-baked ideas because their ideals are not heated up enough.
Quote #32890
The basic purpose of a liberal arts education is to liberate the human being...
Quote #21360
Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.
Quote #26086
Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness-a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her...
Quote #18867
We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown. We have...
Quote #3361
Where do I find the time for not reading so many books?
Quote #3976
If mankind minus one were of one opinion, then mankind is no more justified...
Quote #32854
‘We were making the future,’ he said, and hardly any of us troubled to...
Quote #2682
Life is either always a tight-rope or a featherbed. Give me a tight-rope.