Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.

Power, carried to extremes, is always liable to reaction.

We have built no temple but the Capitol. We consult no common oracle but the Constitution.

Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.

Anything more low, obscene, feculent, the manifold heaving's of history have not cast up. We shall come to the worship of onions, cats and things vermiculite.

Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.

You don't want a diction gathered from the newspapers, caught from the air, common and unsuggestive; but you want one whose every word is full-freighted with suggestion and association, with beauty and power.