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

Research ! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.

To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.

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.

Give the clergy your sympathy; don't give them anything else.

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

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