It's too late to correct it: when you've once said a thing, that fixes it, and you must take the consequences.

When you are describing, A shape, or sound, or tint; Don't state the matter plainly, But put it in a hint; And learn to look at all things, With a sort of mental squint.

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.

Abstract qualities begin With capitals alway: The True, the Good, the Beautiful- Those are the things that pay!

Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round.

Where one is hopelessly undecided as to what to say, there (as Confucius would have said, if they had given him the opportunity) silence is golden.

"I see nobody on the road," said Alice. "I only wish I had such eyes," the King remarked in a fretful tone. "To be able to see Nobody! And at that distance too! Why, it's as much as I can do to see real people, by this light."