It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.
To drink is a small matter. To be thirsty is everything.
It is strange what a contempt men have for the joys that are offered them freely.
A library is that venerable place where men preserve the history of their experience, their tentative experiments, their discoveries, and their plans... in books may be found the recipes for daily living - the prescriptions for the mind and the heart.
Courtesy is not dead - it has merely taken refuge in Great Britain.
In the beds which the piety of the public has prepared on every side, stricken men await the verdict of fate.