It is one thing to describe an interview with a gorgon or a griffin, a creature who does not exist. It is another thing to discover that the rhinoceros does exist and then take pleasure in the fact that he looks as if he didn't.

Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her.

There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.

Gratitude produced the most purely joyful moments that have been known to man.

Even the moon is only poetical because there is a man in the moon.

To hurry through one's leisure is the most unbusiness-like of actions.

If you'd take your head home and boil it for a turnip it might be useful. I can't say. But it might.