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

A fall from such a height is rarely straight downwards.

Too much improvisation leaves the mind stupidly void.

Earnestness is the salt of eloquence.

The jostling of young minds against each other has this wonderful attribute, that one can never foresee the spark, nor predict the flash. What will spring up in a moment? Nobody knows.

A strange thing has happened, do you know? I am in darkness. There is a person who, departing, took away the sun.

Foppery is the egotism of clothes.