Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard - both as regards the monuments and the inscriptions. Scarcely a word of true poetry anywhere.

I am not blaming the past. ... But I want the peace of God to settle on the future.

All translation is a compromise - the effort to be literal and the effort to be idiomatic.

Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.

Young men make great mistakes in life; for one thing, they idealize love too much.

My dear child, you must believe in God despite what the clergy tells you.

Plato's dialogues bear at least some similarities to the classical plays.