Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog.

It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.

Among other common lies, we have the silent lie - the deception which one conveys by simply keeping still and concealing the truth. Many obstinate truth-mongers indulge in this dissipation, imagining that if they speak no lie, they lie not at all.

Be virtuous and you will be eccentric.

Names are not always what they seem. The common Welsh name Bzjxxllwcp is pronounced Jackson.

I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very much better when they got well.

Going to law is losing a cow for the sake of a cat.