History is the new poetry.

Dinners are defined as 'the ultimate act of communion;' men that can have communion in nothing else, can sympathetically eat together, can still rise into some glow of brotherhood over food and wine.

The greatest mistake is to imagine that we never err.

Biography is the most universally pleasant and profitable of all reading.

Love is ever the beginning of knowledge as fire is of light.

If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.

Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.