Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass and it was all semicolons and parentheses.

To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.

To fear the examination of any proposition apears to me an intellectual and a moral palsy that will ever hinder the firm grasping of any substance whatever.

In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the tie of their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little.

One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves.

Half the sorrows of women would be averted if they could repress the speech they know to be useless-nay, the speech they have resolved not to utter.

You must love your work and not always be looking over the edge of it wanting your play to begin.