If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.

The pith of conversation does not consist in exhibiting your own superior knowledge on matters of small consequence, but in enlarging, improving and correcting the information you possess by the authority of others.

I am she, O most bucolical juvenal, under whose charge are placed the milky mothers of the herd.

Independently of the curious circumstance that such tales should be found existing in very different countries and languages, which augurs a greater poverty of human invention than we would have expected, there is also a sort of wild fairy interest in them, which makes me think them fully better adapted to awaken the imagination and soften the heart of childhood than the good-boy stories which have been in later years composed for them.

For he that does good, having the unlimited power to do evil, deserves praise not only for the good which he performs, but for the evil which he forbears.

Tell that to the marines - the sailors won't believe it.

We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.