As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.
Gerald BrenanWe are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.
Gerald BrenanI worked hard at memorizing lists of facts and figures, and carried with me a book of facts.
Charles Van DorenDo not expect the world to look bright, if you habitually wear gray-brown glasses.
Charles William EliotEnthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.
Isaac D'IsraeliIt is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.
Isaac D'IsraeliHow these curiosities would be quite forgot, did not such idle fellowes as I put them down.
John AubreyIt is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy.
James Boswell