Quote #26007
Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills...
Quote #16995
Every artist was first an amateur.
Quote #22069
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew...
Quote #21857
It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It...
Quote #10791
Although we were sent into a failing world, we were not sent to fail.
Quote #8573
The best audience is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk.
Quote #2232
Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now...
Quote #4246
Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security.
Quote #13035
I must say that acting was good training for the political life that lay...
Quote #12477
Suffering is none the less acute and much more lasting when it is put...