Quote #23868
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of...
Quote #13722
A rumor is one thing that gets thicker instead of thinner as it is...
Quote #6770
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
Quote #13321
They wanted facts. Facts! They demanded facts from him, as if facts could explain...
Quote #18992
In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they...
Quote #10221
Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble...
Quote #32193
Knowledge without know-how is sterile. We use the word ‘academic’ in a pejorative sense...
Quote #5191
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
Quote #16382
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the...
Quote #16331
A handful of common sense is worth a bushel of learning.