In some respects the better a book is, the less it demands from the binding.

And the tear that we shed, though in secret it rolls, Shall long keep his memory green in our souls.

The Muses were dumb while Apollo lectured.

Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life.

No one ever regarded the first of January with indifference.

Judge not man by his outward manifestation of faith; for some there are who tremblingly reach out shaking hands to the guidance of faith; others who stoutly venture in the dark their human confidence, their leader, which they mistake for faith; some whose hope totters upon crutches; others who stalk into futurity upon stilts. The difference is chiefly constitutional with them.

I never knew an enemy to puns who was not an ill-natured man.