The Muses were dumb while Apollo lectured.
The beggar wears all colors fearing none.
Literature is a bad crutch, but a good walking-stick.
No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam.
In some respects the better a book is, the less it demands from the binding.
I cannot sit and think; books think for me.