In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools' pleasure

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

The greatest benefit we owe to the artist, whether painter, poet, or novelist, is the extension of our sympathies.

The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.

I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman, unless it's bearing children, and they do that in a poor make-shift way; it had better ha been left to the men.

It is hard to believe long together that anything is "worth while," unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.

There's folks 'ud hold a sieve under the pump and expect to carry away the water.