Never could an increase of comfort or security be a sufficient good to be bought at the price of liberty.

Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing.

I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

Dear Grandmamma, with what we give. We humbly pray that you may live. For many, many happy years: Although you bore us all to tears.

Matilda told such dreadful lies, It made one gasp and stretch one's eyes Her aunt, who, from her earliest youth, Had kept a strict regard for truth, Attempted to believe Matilda The effort very nearly killed her.

Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.

There are few greater temptations on earth than to stay permanently at Oxford in meditation, and to read all the books in the Bodlean.