Air Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Our chambers were always full of chemicals and of criminal relics which had a way of wandering into unlikely positions, and of turning up…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“life of service and humility, of silent subordination and religious training, from which he wrested intellectual pleasures congruent with his”

— Thomas Mann

“punctual discharge of his irksome duties.”

— Lytton Strachey

Dissimulation was his masterpiece; in which he so much excelled that men were not ashamed of being deceived but twice by him.

— Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon

According to the dignity of his position to conduct a person true servants of the country.

— Mak_786

His courtesy was somewhat extravagant. He would write and thank people who wrote to thank him for wedding presents and when he encountered anyone…

— Evelyn Waugh

“He bethought him with pride that he had always been called a scholar, and sneered at for his love of solitude and books. He…

— Virginia Woolf

He was a worker whose only desire was to penetrate with all his forces into the humble and difficult significance of his tools. Therein…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Actually, the laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day; he cannot afford to sustain the manliest relations tomen; his…

— Henry David Thoreau

“I had ceased to be a writer of tolerably poor tales and essays, and had become a tolerably good Surveyor of the Customs. That…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

To be worthy of the name, he must be free of two things; the force of tradition and tyranny of his own passions.

— Bertrand Russell

if anyone present wishes to make me the subject of his wit, I am very much at his service--with my sword--whenever he has leisure.

— Anonymous