He gives us the very quintessence of perception,-the clearly crystalized precipitation of all that is most precious in the ferment of impression after the impertinent and obtrusive particulars have evaporated from the memory.

As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend.

A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity

All birds during the pairing season become more or less sentimental, and murmur soft nothings in a tone very unlike the grinding-organ repetition and loudness of their habitual song. The crow is very comical as a lover; and to hear him trying to soften his croak to the proper Saint-Preux standard has something the effect of a Mississippi boatman quoting Tennyson.

That pernicious sentiment, "Our country, right or wrong."

Whenever you have the kind of market that is taking shape now - a wildly volatile one with big pricing discrepancies - it plays right into the hands of managers who are very focused on research and stock picking.

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.