Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.

Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.

Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.