Quote #4168
A small rock holds back a great wave.
Quote #3827
Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or...
Quote #11798
Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate,...
Quote #20669
One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.
Quote #3678
If heaven is going to be full of people like Hardie, well, the Almighty...
Quote #20712
Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing.
Quote #18936
There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and...
Quote #6303
If not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.
Quote #6808
To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline...
Quote #6284
Poetry often enters through the window of irrelevance.