Lieutenant Hornblower Quotes & Sayings

Pleasure is spread through the earth In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find. — William Wordsworth

Civilization is a social plague on the planet, and vices are just as necessary to it as is a virus to disease. — Charles Fourier

You must be ready to give up even the most attractive ideas when experiment shows them to be wrong. — Alessandro Volta

Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted, for too long a series of generations, in the same worn-out soil. My children have had other birthplaces, and, so far as their fortunes may be within my control, shall strike their roots into unaccustomed earth. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

Hornblower worked as hard to conceal his human weaknesses as some men worked to conceal ignoble birth. — C.S. Forester

Stan Ulam was lazy, ... He talked too much ... He was self-centered ... He had an overpowering personality. — Gian-Carlo Rota