When we pray for death we really desire a fuller life..

Childhood has no necessary connection with age..

Charity is the only lubricant that keeps the axle of the world creaking..

Humor wades across a brook, wit jumps over it..

The three most important events of human life are equally devoid of reason: birth, marriage and death..

A book reviewer is usually a barker before the door of a publisher's circus..

Learned men fall into error oftenest by mistaking knowledge for wisdom..

The reason we constantly discover new truth in Shakespeare is that his complete understanding of the particular includes the universal..

Prose is a photography, poetry is a painting in oil-colors..

The collision of a great man with a great idea strikes fire in dry flax..

Those who listen to lies lose the ability to hear the truth..

Nations die first in the big cities..

Suspicion is an owl that flies when the light is bad and catches only vermin for food..

Those who deserve love the least need it the most..

It is easier to prevent thistles and habits than to uproot them..

An essential quality of beauty is aloofness..

A drunkard is like a whiskey-bottle, all neck and belly and no head..

Wisdom is also a deeper consciousness of ignorance..

And death, that sits in marble silence cold, Will furnish hope to those who may behold The meaning in the everlasting change Of all that dies, return….

If you scratch some saints you will find the devil..

Persecution is as necessary to religion as pruning to an orchard..