And silence, like a poultice, comes To heal the blows of sound.
Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.
The ideas of the classics, so far as living, are our commonplaces. It is the modern books that give us the latest and most profound conceptions. It seems to me rather a lazy makeshift to mumble over the familiar.
There is no time like the old time, when you and I were young!
What I wouldn't give to be seventy again!
Knowledge-it excites prejudices to call it science-is advancing as irresistibly, as majestically, as remorselessly as the ocean moves in upon the shore.