Quote #24898
Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
Quote #29332
Take all your dukes and marquesses and earls and viscounts, pack them into one...
Quote #7986
Curiosity was a form of lust, a wandering cupidity of the eye and the...
Quote #16772
Activity is the only road to knowledge.
Quote #34363
It’s choice – not chance – that determines your destiny.
Quote #768
No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are...
Quote #20799
Oh, thou hast a damnable iteration, and art indeed able to corrupt a saint....
Quote #16595
It is the common failing of totalitarian regimes that they cannot really understand the...
Quote #34155
…probably the greatest concentration of talent and genius in this house except for perhaps...
Quote #4731
Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.