Interest

Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstitious atheist

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.

I am fit for nothing but literature

Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject

And when he is out of sight, quickly also is he out of mind.

Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything

To read means to borrow; to create out of one's readings is paying off one's debts

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

In heaven all the interesting people are missing

Fire burns only when we are near it, but a beautiful face burns and inflames, though at a distance

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move

Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted

A single hour a day, steadily given to the study of some interesting subject, brings unexpected accumulations of knowledge

No calculations of interest, no schemes of policy can do the work of love, of the spirit of human brotherhood. There can be no peace without but through peace within.

People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know