It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.

We would rather see London laid in ruins and ashes than that it should be tamely and abjectly enslaved.

In time of war, soldiers, however sensible, care a great deal more on some occasions about slaking their thirst than about the danger of enteric fever. Better known as typhoid, the disease is often spread by drinking contaminated water.

Well, dinner would have been splendid... if the wine had been as cold as the soup, the beef as rare as the service, the brandy as old as the fish, and the maid as willing as the Duchess.

I am not sure I should have dared to start; but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.