A dictionary can embrace only a small part of the vast tapestry of a language.
Everything since Homer has improved, except poetry.
The end of pain we take as happiness.
Freedom is the dream you dream While putting thought in chains again --
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.
The commonplace expression that life is nothing but a play is verified above all in this: the world speaks absolutely consistently in one way and acts absolutely consistently in another.