By the time I was eleven years old, I had been taught that nature, far from abhorring a Vacuum, positively adores it.
The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.
My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
One's own surroundings means so much to one, when one is feeling miserable.
The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves.