Learning and literature have a way of outlasting the civilization that made them.

Learning and literature have a way of outlasting the civilization that made them.

There were crimson roses on the bench; they looked like splashes of blood.

To start with invention is the mark of the fertile mind ... and leads later to the interpretation of experience; to start with the reproduction of experience is the infallible index of a barren invention.

Very dangerous things, theories.

We may argue eloquently that 'Honesty is the best Policy' - unfortunately, the moment honesty is adopted for the sake of policy it mysteriously ceases to be honesty.

Anythin' wrong leaves a kind of impression on the eye; brain trots along afterwards with the warnin'.