It is sweet to dance to violins When love and life are fair: To dance to flutes, to dance to lutes Is delicate and rare: But it is not sweet with nimble feet To dance upon the air!

Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else.

Oh, no doubt the cod is a splendid swimmer - admirable for swimming purposes but not for eating.

But what world says that [I'm wicked]? It can only be the next world. This world and I are on excellent terms.

Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.