Magnitudes are algebraically represented by letter, men by men of letters, and so on.

There ought to be a book written about me, that there ought!

"The horror of that moment," the King went on, "I shall never, never forget!" "You will, though," the Queen said, "if you don't make a memorandum of it."

"In my youth," said his father, "I look to the law, And argued each case with my wife; And the muscular strength, which it gave to my jaw Has lasted the rest of my life."

People who don't think shouldn't talk.

Do not, oh do not indulge such a wild idea that a newspaper might err! If so what have we to trust in this age of sham?

I maintain that any writer of a book is fully authorised in attaching any meaning he likes to a word or phrase he intends to use. If I find an author saying, at the beginning of his book, "Let it be understood that by the word 'black' I shall always mean 'white,' and by the word 'white' I shall always mean 'black,'" I meekly accept his ruling, however injudicious I think it.