Let youth cherish sleep, the happiest of earthly boons, while yet it is at its command; for there cometh the day to all when "neither the voice of the lute nor the birds" shall bring back the sweet slumbers that fell on their young eyes as unbidden as the dews.

The circle of life is cut up into segments. All lines are equal if they are drawn from the centre and touch the circumference.

What's money without happiness?

Westward, beyond the still pleasant, but, even then, no longer solitary, hamlet of Charing, a broad space, broken here and there by scattered houses and venerable pollards, in the early spring of 1467, presented the rural scene for the sports and pastimes of the inhabitants of Westminister and London.

We are not such fools as to pay for reading inferior books, when we can read superior books for nothing.

When a man is not amused, he feels an involuntary contempt for those who are.

The magic of the tongue is the most dangerous of all spells.