What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.
By law of periodical repetition, everything which has happened once must happen again and again -- and not capriciously, but at regular periods, and each thing in its own period, not another's and each obeying its own law.
Books are the liberated spirits of men.
Preachers are always pleasant company when they are off duty.
Do not complain about growing old. It is a privilege denied to many.
The exquisitely bad is as satisfying to the soul as the exquisitely good. Only the mediocre is unendurable.