I look upon paradoxes as the impotent efforts of men who, not having capacity to draw attention and celebrity from good sense, fly to eccentricities to make themselves noted.

Every drop of ink in my pen ran cold.

Who has begun has half done. Have the courage to be wise. Begin!

How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians.

One's mind suffers only when one is young and while one is ignorant of the world. When one has lived for some time, one learns that the young think too little and the old too much, and one grows careless about both.

The curse of modern times is, that almost everything does create controversy.

The way to ensure summer in England is to have it framed and glazed in a comfortable room.