Quote #21465
The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness...
Quote #15628
This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfection.
Quote #11758
Art lives where absolute freedom is because when it is not, there can be...
Quote #13256
He was guilty of nothing, except that he earned his own fortune and never...
Quote #33020
I do borrow from other writers, shamelessly I can only say in my defense,...
Quote #16078
Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but...
Quote #28738
There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are...
Quote #31426
To Tennessee Williams, children were ‘no-neck monsters,’ while William Wordsworth apotheosized the newborn infant...
Quote #3811
Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.
Quote #2013
Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death.