Life will show you masks that are worth all your carnivals

The finest wits have their sediment.

We infer the spirit of the nation in great measure from the language, which is a sort of monument, to which each forcible individual in a course of many hundred years has contributed a stone.

What is indispensable to inspiration? ...sound sleep and the provocation of a good book or a companion.

Perhaps love is only the highest symbol of friendship, as all other things seem symbols of love.

The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else.

There is no better way to exercise the imagination than the study of the law.