Quote #71
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
Quote #12949
No one now dies of fatal truths; there are too many antidotes to them.
Quote #18052
A day out-of-doors, someone I loved to talk with, a good book and some...
Quote #2483
Even Bach comes down to the basic suck, blow, suck, suck, blow.
Quote #17258
The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a...
Quote #2863
But in our enthusiasm, we could not resist a radical overhaul of the system,...
Quote #573
If you stop to be kind, you must swerve often from your path.
Quote #5029
Did you exchange a walk-on part in a war, for a leading role in...
Quote #33773
Most men are within a finger’s breadth of being mad.
Quote #11214
These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.