There is nothing more frustrating than a good example.

I played Chess with him and would have beaten him sometimes only he always took back his last move, and ran the game out differently

The darling mispronunciations of childhood! - dear me, there's no music that can touch it; and how one grieves when it wastes away and dissolves into correctness, knowing it will never visit his bereaved ear again.

I don't believe any of you have ever read Paradise Lost, and you don't want to. That's something that you just want to take on trust. It's a classic ... something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

Yes, even I am dishonest. Not in many ways, but in some. Forty-one, I think it is.

Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.

We don't care to eat toadstools that think they are truffles.