Taste is often one of the aspects of fashion.

A first book has some of the sweetness of a first love.

The ponderous tomes are bales of the mind's merchandise.

Whatever is beautiful is also profitable.

The light of genius never sets, but sheds itself upon other faces, in different hues of splendor. Homer glows in the softened beauty of Virgil, and Spenser revives in the decorated learning of Gray.

To study history is to study literature.

Taste is improved by cultivation.

The drama is the book of the people.

It is supposable that, in the eyes of angels, a struggle down a dark lane and a battle of Leipsic differ in nothing but excess of wickedness.

The exhibition of real strength is never grotesque. Distortion is the agony of weakness. It is the dislocated mind whose movements are spasmodic.

Talents, to strike the eye of posterity, should be concentrated. Rays, powerless while they are scattered, burn in a point.

Because, of course, it wouldn't do to just talk to her. She had spoken to him in flashes of daylight, and he felt he ought to reply in kind.

For the one and only time I caught a glimpse of a great heart as well as of a great brain.

With opportunity the world is very interesting.

Well, I've been in a few car wrecks.

Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.

The best fire doesna flare up the soonest.

You could not see a cloud, because No cloud was in the sky: No birds were flying overhead - There were no birds to fly.

Normally, racing drivers come from a long line of previous successful sports people.

Dispassion and humility lead to spiritual knowledge. Without them no one will see the Lord.

Disasters have no mercy hours where they stop visiting the people; for them, all hours are favourite and legitimate to visit!