A dictionary can embrace only a small part of the vast tapestry of a language.
Everything since Homer has improved, except poetry.
The world laughs at things it would really prefer to admire, and like Aesop's fox it criticizes things it covets.
He who doubts, knows - knows as much as can be known.
If the best company is that which we leave feeling most satisfied with ourselves, it follows that it is the company we leave most bored.
Nature, with her customary beneficence, has ordained that man shall not learn how to live until the reasons for living are stolen from him, that he shall find no enjoyment until he has become incapable of vivid pleasure.