The Written Word is a Fairy, as mocking and elusive as Willy Wisp, speaking lying words to us in a feigned voice. So let all readers of books take warning!

A house with old furniture has no need of ghosts to be haunted.

Reason I know, is only a drug, and, as such, its effects are never permanent. But, like the juice of the poppy, it often gives a temporary relief.

It shocked his sense of dramatic economy that they should have to resort to violence when the same result could have been obtained by a minimum expenditure of energy.

So fine a medicine is the will to action.

A bad conscience makes a very good ghost.

There had always been something rather brutal about (..._) common sense.

But these are sad times, the 'prentices wanting to be masters, and every little tradesman wanting to be a Senator, and every dirty little urchin thinking he can giveimpudence to his betters!

Let mental suffering be intense enough, and it becomes a sort of carminative.

Sentimentality is a quality that rarely has the slightest influence on action.

Mad folks are often as dangerous as bad ones.

There is something immoral about abandoning your common sense in matters of social importance.

and when hecatches meoff guardand says'i love you'i catch himoff guardand say 'i need your help.

Translation software is not making translators obsolete. Has medical diagnostic software made doctors obsolete?

Where is it written that one should only care about big things?

It is forbidden to kill therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

having enough for now, while not harming the future.

Communication is the root of marital success from which a strong union can grow, and noncommunicatio n is the rock on which the ship will bash out her keel.

If you only ever did the things you don’t want to do, you’d have everything you’ve ever wanted.

It's a big mistake to try and mislead people. They will turn around.

But was there ever dog that praised his fleas?