A few more years will destroy whatever yet remains of that magical potency which once belonged to the name of Byron.

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god.

It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it. One who trusts nobody will not trust sycophants. One who does not value real glory will not value its counterfeit.

Finesse is the best adaptation of means to circumstances.

People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.

I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.

The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

Ye diners out from whom we guard our spoons.

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.

Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor.

Lori sat way back in her chair and gave him the once-over. "What in the world's gotten into Ben Lawson? jokes? Flirting? Maybe I should sleep with Molly. I think she's got a magic hooha.

Between giant spiders and meeting Edmund Ellis did I have a chance, Ms Rainn?

We look up to see if it is day or night. If stars burn cool and moon does shine, we take to smoke divine and wine. If breath of sun does belch its heat, we boil coffee and prepare to eat.

But at a certain point in our lives, we cannot passively allow our upbringing to define us. We must choose it or choose other.

He that fights and runs away Will live to fight another day.

Well begun is not only half done, but often fully cooked.

He loved her, and would love her; and defy her, and this miserable bodily pain.

I believe that a child going without an education is a crime.

...the reality of intelligent British speech... uses blasphemus, coital and cloacal expletives as a matter of course.

Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence.