Quote #2682
Life is either always a tight-rope or a featherbed. Give me a tight-rope.
Quote #13548
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
Quote #22127
One should not lose one’s temper unless one is certain of getting more and...
Quote #824
I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to...
Quote #28775
The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.
Quote #4411
Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to...
Quote #21852
There comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that...
Quote #23045
People far prefer happiness to wisdom, but that is like wanting to be immortal...
Quote #2112
I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.
Quote #29960
The only cure for contempt is countercontempt.