Much reading is like much eating -wholly useless without digestion.
An obstacle is often an unrecognized opportunity
The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible.
Anger is a transient hatred; or at least very like it.
An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise.
It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination.