They used to say that knowledge is power. I used to think so, but I know now they mean money.

A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.

I've seen your stormy seas and stormy women, And pity lovers rather more than seamen.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Where are the forms the sculptor's soul hath seized? In him alone, Can nature show as fair?

The castled crag of Drachenfels, Frowns o'er the wide and winding Rhine, Whose breast of waters broadly swells Between the banks which bear the vine, And hills all rich with blossom'd trees, And fields which promise corn and wine, And scatter'd cities crowning these, Whose far white walls along them shine.

To be perfectly original one should think much and read little, and this is impossible, for one must have read before one has learnt to think.