Quote #28730
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Quote #17820
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could...
Quote #22575
A companion’s words of persuasion are effective.
Quote #24416
There is no discipline in the world so severe as the discipline of experience...
Quote #31335
I died a mineral, and became a plant. I died a plant and rose...
Quote #7019
In critical moments even the very powerful have need of the weakest.
Quote #26979
He was a genius – that is to say, a man who does superlatively...
Quote #20821
Self-loving is not so vile a sin, my liege, as self-neglecting.
Quote #29186
Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn’t permanent.
Quote #29937
Life without sex might be safer but it would be unbearably dull. It is...