On the Greek stage a drama, or acted story, consisted in reality of three dramas, called together a trilogy, and performed consecutively in the course of one day.

Boys and girls, And women, that would groan to see a child Pull off an insect's leg, all read of war, The best amusement for our morning meal.

For I often please myself with the fancy, now that I may have saved from oblivion the only striking passage in a whole volume, and now that I may have attracted notice to a writer undeservedly forgotten.

I must lay down the law as I understand it, and as I read it in books of authority.

If people could learn history, what lessons it might teach us!

Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.

Contempt is egotism in ill- humor.