Loving-kindness is the better part of goodness.

There are few things so pleasant as a picnic eaten in perfect comfort.

There was once a professor of law who said to his students. When you are fighting a case, if you have facts on your side hammer them into the jury, and if you have the law on your side hammer it into the judge. But if you have neither the facts nor the law, asked one of his listeners? Then hammer the hell into the table, answered the professor.

The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes...

Make him laugh and he will think you a trivial fellow, but bore him in the right way and your reputation is assured.

By the time a man notices that he is no longer young, his youth has long since left him.

But what is criticism? Criticism is purely destructive; anyone can destroy, but not everyone can build up.