Most authors steal their works, or buy.

Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.

A perfect judge will read each word of wit with the same spirit that its author writ.

What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: "It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace." But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit; and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.

Atheists put on false courage and alacrity in the midst of their darkness and apprehensions, like children who, when they fear to go in the dark, will sing for fear.

Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate.

Only music has the ability to take you to the edge of reality and allow you to peek in for a moment.