The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds.
» David Hume (1711-1776) Scottish philosopher, economist and historian
|
» Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873) British politician, poet and critic
|
» Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) British poet
|
» Erasmus of Rotterdam (1466-1536) Dutch humanist and theologian
|
» Ezra Pound (1885-1972) American poet, critic and intellectual
|
» Georg C. Lichtenberg (1742-1799) German scientist, satirist and anglophile
|
» Georg C. Lichtenberg (1742-1799) German scientist, satirist and anglophile
|
» Henri Frédéric Amiel (1821-1881) Swiss philosopher and writer
|
» Henri Frédéric Amiel (1821-1881) Swiss philosopher and writer
|
» Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) American politician, social reformer
|
» James Joyce (1882-1941) Irish author
|
» Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007) French sociologist, and philosopher
|
» Denis Diderot (1713-1784) French philosopher
|
» Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) British poet
|
» Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805) German poet, playwright, writer, historian and philosopher.
|
» George Eliot (1819-1880) British novelist ['Middlemarch']
|
» Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) American poet and educator
|
» James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) American romantic poet, critic and editor
|