My only books Were woman's looks,- And folly 's all they 've taught me.
New Year's Day is every man's birthday.
We do not go to the theatre like our ancestors, to escape from the pressure of reality, so much as to confirm our experience of it.
Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.
Damn the age. I'll write for antiquity.
In some respects the better a book is, the less it demands from the binding.