There is magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships; it softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.

Doubt is an element of criticism, and the tendency of criticism is necessarily skeptical.

She is an excellent creature, but she can never remember which came first, the Greeks or the Romans.

A book may be as great a thing as a battle.

We moralize among ruins.

Life is to short to be small.

I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.