The Italians say it is not necessary to be a stag; but we ought not to be a tortoise.
It is the fashion to style the present moment an extraordinary crisis.
The eyes of the social herd, who always observe little things, and generally form from them their opinions of great affairs.
Accent and emphasis are the pith of reading; punctuation is but secondary.
There can be no economy where there is no efficiency.
We cannot learn men from books.