England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made England.

Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.

The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.

It is from books that wise men derive consolation in the troubles of life.

Dirt has been shrewdly termed "misplaced material.

People do not read stupidities with impunity.

For there are many great deeds done in the small struggles of life.