An alliterative prefix served as an ornament of oratory.

What is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means?

One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes. Moralists had, as a rule, regarded it as a mode of warning, had claimed for it a certain ethical efficacy in the formation of character, had praised it as something that taught us what to follow and showed us what to avoid. But there was no motive power in experience. It was as little of an active cause as conscience itself. All that it really demonstrated was that our future would be the same as our past, and that the sin we had done once, and with loathing, we would do many times, and with joy.

All bad art is the result of good intentions.

I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.

There are two ways of disliking poetry, one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope.