Quote #6061
Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.
Quote #9516
Power never takes a back step – only in the face of more power.
Quote #9534
I have never been able, really, to regret anything in all my life. I...
Quote #34155
…probably the greatest concentration of talent and genius in this house except for perhaps...
Quote #17798
I cannot keep from talking, even at the risk of being instructive.
Quote #25230
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is...
Quote #14381
We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we...
Quote #28124
It is books that are a key to the wide world if you can’t...
Quote #6636
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Quote #19648
When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however improbable, must be the...